So you need advice on how to use your 'blad...

There are actually about 12 modified 500EL/M's left on the moons surface, to save weight, the 70mm film packs were taken back and the cameras left on the moon. It was actually surprisingly simple how moon photography was done, the camera was mounted on the astronauts chest and they just simply pointed the camera on their chest at the target using scale focusing and clicked the shutter as they were unable to see the viewfinder.

They actually had to say over the radio everytime that they were taking a photograph so that mission control could count how many shots they had taken and tell them when they needed to change the film pack as the astronauts were unable to see the film counter!

I wonder if those 12 Blad's would work today if someone was to go there and load a 70mm film pack into them...

Hopefully one day we might find out!
 
s162216 said:
There are actually about 12 modified 500EL/M's left on the moons surface, to save weight, the 70mm film packs were taken back and the cameras left on the moon. It was actually surprisingly simple how moon photography was done, the camera was mounted on the astronauts chest and they just simply pointed the camera on their chest at the target using scale focusing and clicked the shutter as they were unable to see the viewfinder.

They actually had to say over the radio everytime that they were taking a photograph so that mission control could count how many shots they had taken and tell them when they needed to change the film pack as the astronauts were unable to see the film counter!

I wonder if those 12 Blad's would work today if someone was to go there and load a 70mm film pack into them...

Hopefully one day we might find out!
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Should be easy enough, they're on a soundstage somewhere in the Arizona desert :lol:
 
A 10"x8" view camera and a custom 10"x8" water cooled projector? With Stanley Kubrick barking out orders and asking for re-takes continually?

I'm sure thats good enough for them to record the enslaving! :lol:


(For those of you who may not know this, Stanley Kubrick did all the African scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey by having large format transparencies taken and on a soundstage projected via front projection at right angles onto a half silvered mirror which reflected onto a massively sized screen 110' x 40' made of a special retroreflective material that reflected the light back in the camera. The screen was so big that 5"x4" transparencies looked grainy when projected so he commissioned a custom 10"x8" projector - there was no such thing as a 10x8 projector- with the biggest and most powerful ark lamp he could find which had to be water cooled as it produced so much heat!) End of lecture regarding 2001, I just love Kubricks films!

Look here for more information:
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/2001a/page2.html
 
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Flash In The Pan said:
Should be easy enough, they're on a soundstage somewhere in the Arizona desert :lol:
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I must admit, my doubts raised when I watched the recent repeats of the last moonwalks and at the end when the lunar lander takes off the camera follows the ship as it leaves, how?
 
EdBray said:
I must admit, my doubts raised when I watched the recent repeats of the last moonwalks and at the end when the lunar lander takes off the camera follows the ship as it leaves, how?
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That was the camera on the lunar rover, which could still be controlled from Earth. Since you know how fast the ascent stage is going to rise it's pretty easy to program it to automatically track. That said they tried a similar thing on a previous mission and got the timing all wrong, but still :p
 
I think they went - photos like this released recently by NASA are just more proof:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14813043

Of course they could have just photoshoped all that in, but surely after 40 years if they didn't go then thats one hell of an amount of trouble just to keep the deception going and how are things like the moon laser reflector accounted for then?

Plus conspiracy theorists who say that Stanley Kubrick in secret directed the moon landings on a sounstage are talking rubbish as if you compare the moon sequences in 2001 to the moon landings there are several differences/artistic licenses that Kubrick took. Plus at the time he would have been busy writing/filing A Clockwork Orange.
 
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Personally I believe they went and came back, stuff like the newly released pictures of the landing site, and the fact they left the weird reflector thing they use to track how far the moon is moving away from us are proof enough for me. Some of the official pictures are a little suspect though, especially the ones with the cross etchings going behind objects supposedly in the frame

One day maybe we can go back and collect those lovely blade, and the rovers as well :)
 
Superewza said:
There's no 'believe' about it - i know that we went to the moon :)
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Unless you were there you can't 'know', you may believe it, but you can't prove it...... ;)

It'll be interesting if the Japanese get their space programme back on track and go there.....

and there's no sign of all the stuff the Americans say they have left behind. Unless the Clangers are actually real, descended from gypsies and weighed the whole lot in at the Soupdragon's scrapyard :naughty:
 
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Flash In The Pan said:
Unless you were there you can't 'know', you may believe it, but you can't prove it...... ;)

It'll be interesting if the Japanese get their space programme back on track and go there.....

and there's no sign of all the stuff the Americans say they have left behind. Unless the Clangers are actually real, descended from gypsies and weighed the whole lot in at the Soupdragon's scrapyard :naughty:
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Faith is opinion based on nothing. Knowledge is based on tangible evidence. I know that we went to the moon. If you want to believe we didn't because you think it makes a better story (which is bull anyway) then feel free, but don't try to convince others of that flawed view.

There's more evidence than you would care to wave a finger at man!
 
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