1929 Zeiss Ikon to be used on board current shuttle to service Hubble telescope
- Thread starter Bob Michaels
- Start date
- Latest activity Latest activity:
- Replies 26
- Views 5K
DeeCee3
Established
An Old Friend Re-Surfaces!
An Old Friend Re-Surfaces!
The very first photograph I ever had published was shot with a Zeiss Ikon Maximar back in the late 40's. I had just bought mine for $10, as I recall, from a pawn shop in my hometown. It had the 120 rollfilm back so I loaded it with Verichrome, memory tells me, and I fired off a couple of frames.
It was on the weekend and I was aware that the photographer at our local paper was at the beach. Sometime around midnight on Saturday, I was awakened by the town fire alarm. Sirens could be heard in several directions so I knew there had to be a big fire somewhere. I threw on some clothes and headed out the door. The fire was at a barrel factory in our town and when I got there, it was going like crazy!
Using the dreadfully slow Verichrome (ASA 50, I think), I chose my shots carefully. I got three or four of firefighters silhouetted against the blaze straight-streaming water. I dropped the roll off first thing Monday at the newspaper office and was proud as punch that afternoon when I saw the shot on page 1!
dc3
An Old Friend Re-Surfaces!
The very first photograph I ever had published was shot with a Zeiss Ikon Maximar back in the late 40's. I had just bought mine for $10, as I recall, from a pawn shop in my hometown. It had the 120 rollfilm back so I loaded it with Verichrome, memory tells me, and I fired off a couple of frames.
It was on the weekend and I was aware that the photographer at our local paper was at the beach. Sometime around midnight on Saturday, I was awakened by the town fire alarm. Sirens could be heard in several directions so I knew there had to be a big fire somewhere. I threw on some clothes and headed out the door. The fire was at a barrel factory in our town and when I got there, it was going like crazy!
Using the dreadfully slow Verichrome (ASA 50, I think), I chose my shots carefully. I got three or four of firefighters silhouetted against the blaze straight-streaming water. I dropped the roll off first thing Monday at the newspaper office and was proud as punch that afternoon when I saw the shot on page 1!
dc3
DeeCee3
Established
Yep, Chippy...75 and proud of it! Sadly, I did not keep a copy and the newspaper office lost many of their files from the late 40's in a move.
dc3
dc3
Tuolumne
Veteran
I'd like to see someone take a photo of him with the camera and the Hubble in the background. Great super-imposition: One of the world's oldest cameras with the newest and farthest seeing.
/T
/T
George S.
How many is enough?
Ron said....
Eventually the race was won by the USSR:
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, on 12 April 1961, he became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the earth.
=======================================================
Maybe they won the first leg of the relay, but I'm stil waiting for them to cross the finish line on the moon!
Eventually the race was won by the USSR:
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, on 12 April 1961, he became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the earth.
=======================================================
Maybe they won the first leg of the relay, but I'm stil waiting for them to cross the finish line on the moon!
Last edited:
George S.
How many is enough?
There shouldn't be a weight or policy issue with the astronaut taking the camera up. All astros are able to take along a certain weight of personal items. It's really not much, but they all take something personal. A teacher might take their student's experiment, etc.
chippy
foo was here
kinda belittles N. A. words though doesnt it...not that we Aussies care, we had a rocket once, launched it...it didnt go belly up...it went all directions 😱...but there are rumours it was all staged inside a low budget theater out back of the black stump though
Last edited: