How many Leica owners also have a Hasselblad ?

[adan]

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1) for the record - manned Apollo missions up through first landing:

Apollo 1 - destroyed by fire during systems test on launch pad, 3 astronauts killed, designated "1" as memorial
Apollo 7 - low Earth orbit test flight (Saturn IB launch vehicle instead of the "real deal" Saturn V)
Apollo 8 - first circumlunar flight and return - no landing intended (LEM not yet ready for flight) - "Earthrise" photo taken by "therefore unemployed" Lunar Module Pilot Bill Anders**
Apollo 9 - low Earth orbit, first flight to carry Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) landing vehicle, tested manuevering and docking with lander
Apollo 10 - second circumlunar flight - no landing intended, but lander was test-flown down to altitude of 15.6 km/10 miles above moon's surface
Apollo 11 - first manned landing on lunar surface - "One small step....etc."

** Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell then grabbed the camera and shot his own version before returning the camera to Anders who took some more.

2) Forgive me if I've mentioned this before. In 2006, I met a lecturer freshly retired for the Manned Space Program (employed from Gemini through the Shuttle era in NASA's photo division). He claimed to possess one of the Hassy bodies that had been to the Moon's surface. He had found it sometime in the 80's in a storage locker at NASA, and checked the flight manifests, and determined from the property number that it was one that had ridden to the surface in the LEM. At his retirement years later, he asked if he could take with him "that old camera we're no longer using" and was told "Sure!" (He was by that time a fairly senior "steely-eyed missile man" who could get what he asked for, within reason).

He also claimed to have been the first person to ever see the "Earthrise" picture, as the 70mm Ektachrome rolled out of the dryer.

I suspect the camera he had (if the story is true) was the "regular" EL always carried in the LEM for mapping/orbital/descent/ascent pictures. Not one of the suit-borne Data Cameras actually taken out onto the surface on the "moonwalks," but close enough. With six LEMs that made it to the moon's surface, I can see where several "indoor LEM" cameras might well have made the trip back.
 

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[adan]

Incidentally - Apollo 8 (with its Hasselblads) lifted off for the Moon 50 years ago today (or yesterday, depending on where you are). Dec. 21, 1968.

"A half a century. Makes a girl think!" - apologies to Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot!

Edited December 22, 2018 by adan

[35mmview]

I'm late to the party but I have an M-P 240 and a Hasselblad CM500.

I love My CM but as others have stated I also don't cock it's shutter enough.

I keep telling myelf to get it out and run a roll of Portra through it, But something always comes up and well you know the story.....

I want to capture a bluebell wood in full bloom and print it for me old Mum. She just loves the bluebells

 

[Chuck]

17 hours ago, adan said:

Incidentally - Apollo 8 (with its Hasselblads) lifted off for the Moon 50 years ago today (or yesterday, depending on where you are). Dec. 21, 1968.

"A half a century. Makes a girl think!" - apologies to Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot!

A quite gripping account of the Apollo 8 mission:

https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Men-Odyssey-Astronauts-Journey/dp/0812988701/ref=sr_1_1_twi_har_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1545501852&sr=8-1&keywords=rocket+men

 

The Apollo 8 mission was the first time in history humans began a journey to another celestial body and became subject to its local rather than Earth’s gravitational field. Courageous astronauts to say the least (quoting from the AP News site):

"The Saturn V rocket used for the launch had never flown with men aboard, and it had had just had two tests, the most recent of which had failed catastrophically just eight months earlier. " 

"To this day, that 1968 mission is considered to be NASA’s boldest and perhaps most dangerous undertaking. There was unprecedented and unfathomable risk to putting three men atop a monstrous new rocket for the first time and sending them all the way to the moon. The mission was whipped together in just four months in order to reach the moon by year’s end, before the Soviet Union."

The command module from this mission is on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

 

[Ambro51]

.......and today the USA is incapable of putting a man into orbit. Sad.

[sblitz]

On 12/20/2018 at 3:25 AM, adan said:

1) for the record - manned Apollo missions up through first landing:

Apollo 1 - destroyed by fire during systems test on launch pad, 3 astronauts killed, designated "1" as memorial
Apollo 7 - low Earth orbit test flight (Saturn IB launch vehicle instead of the "real deal" Saturn V)
Apollo 8 - first circumlunar flight and return - no landing intended (LEM not yet ready for flight) - "Earthrise" photo taken by "therefore unemployed" Lunar Module Pilot Bill Anders**
Apollo 9 - low Earth orbit, first flight to carry Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) landing vehicle, tested manuevering and docking with lander
Apollo 10 - second circumlunar flight - no landing intended, but lander was test-flown down to altitude of 15.6 km/10 miles above moon's surface
Apollo 11 - first manned landing on lunar surface - "One small step....etc."

** Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell then grabbed the camera and shot his own version before returning the camera to Anders who took some more.

2) Forgive me if I've mentioned this before. In 2006, I met a lecturer freshly retired for the Manned Space Program (employed from Gemini through the Shuttle era in NASA's photo division). He claimed to possess one of the Hassy bodies that had been to the Moon's surface. He had found it sometime in the 80's in a storage locker at NASA, and checked the flight manifests, and determined from the property number that it was one that had ridden to the surface in the LEM. At his retirement years later, he asked if he could take with him "that old camera we're no longer using" and was told "Sure!" (He was by that time a fairly senior "steely-eyed missile man" who could get what he asked for, within reason).

He also claimed to have been the first person to ever see the "Earthrise" picture, as the 70mm Ektachrome rolled out of the dryer.

I suspect the camera he had (if the story is true) was the "regular" EL always carried in the LEM for mapping/orbital/descent/ascent pictures. Not one of the suit-borne Data Cameras actually taken out onto the surface on the "moonwalks," but close enough. With six LEMs that made it to the moon's surface, I can see where several "indoor LEM" cameras might well have made the trip back.
 

Just saw a repeat documentary on the flight and Anders said when the earth rise came up he grabbed the camera, didn't have a meter, so he just took lots of shots varying the f/stop ... guess they pick the best one.

70mm ektachome!

[pico]

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1 hour ago, sblitz said:

Just saw a repeat documentary on the flight and Anders said when the earth rise came up he grabbed the camera, didn't have a meter, so he just took lots of shots varying the f/stop ... guess they pick the best one.

70mm ektachome!

Maybe. Records show that as he asked for the longer lens, one of the crew said, "ƒ11 @ 1/250" as from recall or a document.

Edited January 18, 2019 by pico

[Narsuitus]

I love the high-quality square images of the Hasselblad but for some reason, the ergonomics of the Hasselblad never appealed to me. I prefer the ergonomics and the high-quality rectangular images of Mamiya RB67 and the Fuji medium format rangefinders.

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[Keith (M)]

Really should dust-off my GW690II!  Haven't used it for over two years - since my H500C arrived...

[pico]

11 hours ago, Narsuitus said:

for some reason, the ergonomics of the Hasselblad never appealed to me.

Here is an unusual grip that works well on a Hasselblad.

http://www.digoliardi.net/unusual-linhof-grip-2.jpg
http://www.digoliardi.net/unusual-linhof-grip-1.jpg

Edited January 19, 2019 by pico

[Ronazle]

Apollo 11: my family and I were walking around the "West Gate" district of downtown Taipei and thousands were gathered around store windows that had TVs showing the moonwalk;  I was so proud to be an American.  Who knows, perhaps this moved me to trade my Bronica for a Hassy. Regards, Ron

Edited January 19, 2019 by Ronazle