dave lackey
Veteran
Unfortunately, the iconic Hasselblad image that highlighted the beauty and fragility of the Earth's environment could only do so much and the record shows that we are still not treating our planet kindly.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/12/23/op...ick-evanoff/index.html?r=https://www.cnn.com/
But the cool thing is, one can still buy both the camera and 70mm film that was used on the moon to shoot this beautiful image.
Sigh... I would love to shoot an HB with 70mm film myself for an environmental project locally. But it is not financially possible... Perhaps some RFF member will do some amazing work to regenerate the public's interest in our environmental concerns.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/12/23/op...ick-evanoff/index.html?r=https://www.cnn.com/
But the cool thing is, one can still buy both the camera and 70mm film that was used on the moon to shoot this beautiful image.
Sigh... I would love to shoot an HB with 70mm film myself for an environmental project locally. But it is not financially possible... Perhaps some RFF member will do some amazing work to regenerate the public's interest in our environmental concerns.
robert blu
quiet photographer
Still an incredible photo...
robert
PS: I remember many years ago I saw an Hasselblad advertising saying (more or less) there is one of our cameras for free, you only need to go to the moon and pick it up !
robert
PS: I remember many years ago I saw an Hasselblad advertising saying (more or less) there is one of our cameras for free, you only need to go to the moon and pick it up !
Timmyjoe
Veteran
There was a great piece on NOVA last night on Apollo 8. It showed one of the astronauts wielding a Hasselblad with what looked like a very long telephoto lens as he shot out the window of the capsule. Anyone know what lens they were using?
Best,
-Tim
PS: Isn't 70mm film just 120 film?
Best,
-Tim
PS: Isn't 70mm film just 120 film?
charjohncarter
Veteran
I was really busy then, I couldn't believe what I was seeing on the TV. And I'm maybe wrong but I think it was live; we had to wait for the photo though.
ASA 32
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Photo was taken in "portrait" mode, but usually published rotated to "landscape." NASA thought the unrotated image, with the moon looming into the left of the frame, had a menacing quality. YMMV.
Timmyjoe
Veteran
My Dad and I used to watch all the space program news, going back to the early 1960's. We were both really excited about the Apollo program and the dream of getting to the moon. That Christmas, 1968, was the last space program news we got to watch together. I have very fond memories. He died a month later, and never got to see them land on the moon.
Best,
-Tim
Mackinaw
Think Different
I watched that program too. I liked how astronaut Bill Anders said he didn't have a light meter so just bracketed like hell.
Jim B.
Steve M.
Veteran
Those were certainly different times. I miss them. NASA was almost totally civilian, while now they have been defunded so much, about all they do is launch spy satellites for our military and we have to rely on the Russians to send American astronauts up to the space station.
I don't understand the comment about the shot being made in portrait mode. A blad takes square photos. I find it amusing that Irwin's camera locked up on him while on the moon, just like so many blads did to us down here.
I don't understand the comment about the shot being made in portrait mode. A blad takes square photos. I find it amusing that Irwin's camera locked up on him while on the moon, just like so many blads did to us down here.
jim_jm
Well-known
Recently saw a short YouTube film about these photos, don't recall the link though. I believe they had one body with an 80mm lens, one with a 250mm lens and another with a wide lens (40mm? maybe).
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Chuck Albertson
Well-known
It was a 250.
Chuck Albertson
Well-known
There are several, in fact. The astronauts only brought back the film backs to save weight.
Benjamin Marks
Veteran
A link to the movie and sound is below at The Online Photographer. The funny thing, photographically speaking, is to hear Bill Anders asking for the color Hassie back, and Jim Lovell telling him to calm down.
https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2018/12/earthrise-and-merry-christmas-.html
https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2018/12/earthrise-and-merry-christmas-.html
ChipMcD
Well-known
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise. The lens was a 250mm Sonnar. 70mm film was a movie film that was broad enough to take 6x6cm images. The backs used a cassette for the film, I believe. I don't know how many exposures were possible, but it was a lot more than the 24 possible with 220 film. The article says the photo was shot on Ektachrome.
KenR
Well-known
Portrait mode Landscape mode?
Portrait mode Landscape mode?
Last time I shot with a Hasselblad it was a 2 1/4 inch square. You can crop it any way you want to, but the negative is still square.
Portrait mode Landscape mode?
Last time I shot with a Hasselblad it was a 2 1/4 inch square. You can crop it any way you want to, but the negative is still square.
Mackinaw
Think Different
Years back, I used a Rollei 6003 with a 70mm back. We usually loaded between 60-70 exposures of Kodak Color Infrared film per back.
Jim B.
At least some of the 70mm films used during the Apollo program were on a thin base facilitating a greater number of images per magazine than would usually be the case. Not sure about the Ektachrome used during the Apollo 8 flight without looking it up though.
charjohncarter
Veteran
Timmyjoe, good memories with your dad. I was in professional school with a pregnant wife and working in a gas station so watching TV was out (so I missed all those 'Hogan's Heros' shows). When the moon landing happened (1969) I had taken a breather and was swimming in the lake in my hometown. This was at a classmates parent's home: his father came out and told us to come inside and see Armstrong on the moon. And it was live and in Color which was not a common TV then. I was oblivious to what was happening at that time.
Richard G
Veteran
Jim Lovell tells Anders “250 at f11”. That’s from a table for sure, and specific to the colour magazine with 168 ASA Ektachrome. The bracketing was just in case, not the lack of a light meter which would have been disastrous.
Timmyjoe
Veteran
There was only one family in our neighborhood who had a color TV in 1969, and I remember the entire neighborhood crammed into their living room watching Neil Armstrong and the moon landing. Crazy days.
Best,
-Tim
Mackinaw
Think Different
According to Anders (the recent Nova episode referred to above), he had no light meter. But maybe the passing of time dims one’s memory.
Jim B.