monkeypainter
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sevo
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That looks very much like a modified Contarex.
Googling a bit: "on the second Gemini mission, history was made when the first picture of a spacecraft in orbit was taken by astronaut Ed White as he floated outside his spacecraft. He used a Zeiss Contarex 35mm camera mounted atop his gas-powered maneuvering gun."
I.e. no rangefinder, but a SLR supposedly hacked for focus free operation.
Sevo
Googling a bit: "on the second Gemini mission, history was made when the first picture of a spacecraft in orbit was taken by astronaut Ed White as he floated outside his spacecraft. He used a Zeiss Contarex 35mm camera mounted atop his gas-powered maneuvering gun."
I.e. no rangefinder, but a SLR supposedly hacked for focus free operation.
Sevo
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monkeypainter
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Thanx!
Looks like if the prism (and probably the mirror) had been removed. Not a SLR anymore!
Looks like if the prism (and probably the mirror) had been removed. Not a SLR anymore!
Larky
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Sad to know that none of the cameras made it back. All the spacewalks ended up with lost cameras, and the blads got left on the moon. 
Spoks
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Sure, a rangefinder camer was used in space. The Hasselblad SWC. Look up this:
http://www.hasselblad.com/about-hasselblad/hasselblad-in-space/space-cameras.aspx
http://www.hasselblad.com/about-hasselblad/hasselblad-in-space/space-cameras.aspx
sevo
Fokutorendaburando
The NASA had a SWC with rangefinder?
Going by the Hasselblad site, they stripped the SWC of its viewfinder (not rangefinder), and most of the SLRs of their mirror, ground glass and hood - and probably removed the helicoid from the lenses as well, ending up with finder free cameras with fixed focus set at infinity.
Going by the Hasselblad site, they stripped the SWC of its viewfinder (not rangefinder), and most of the SLRs of their mirror, ground glass and hood - and probably removed the helicoid from the lenses as well, ending up with finder free cameras with fixed focus set at infinity.
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FrozenInTime
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The rangefinder mechanism associated with the NASA SWC cameras consisted of a pair of eyes inside the space helmet. ;-)
monkeypainter
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That makes sense. I'm sure that up there you can see a hell of a lot of infinity.
Chuck Albertson
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The New York Times' Lens blog had an excellent post on NASA photography last night---the accompanying slide show is worth a look.
monemmer
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I guess one would use sunny 16 in space.