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Subject: [Leica] NASA cameras IMAX 3-D
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:02:06 -0400

NASA to Launch IMAX 3-D Camera to Film Hubble Servicing Mission

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/may/HQ_09-094_IMAX_Hubble.html


Ansel when asked which camera he used would say the biggest one he could
carry. In outer space weightless that might mean 11x14 glass plates!




Mark William Rabiner



> From: Duane Birkey <dbirkey at hcjb.org>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:17:22 -0600
> To: <lug at leica-users.org>
> Conversation: nasa cameras
> Subject: [Leica] nasa cameras
> 
> There is a pretty amazing collection of NASA cameras on display in the
> Space museum in Kansas in the middle of nowhere.....   It has  an
> extensive space collection with a number of Apollo and Gemini space
> capsules....  A lot of artifacts from the Russian space program....   An
> actual Sputnik I and II (backups) one of their space capsules......
> which was basically a big ball.... a V1 and V2 rocket.....  anyhow the
> museum is really amazing....
> 
>  
> 
> Lots of Nikon and Hasselblad cameras on display...  no Leicas
> though..... 
> 
>  
> 
> Duane Birkey
> 
> 
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