NASA Pictures - Pretty amazing!

[Nick Goodall]

Safe to say these weren't taken with no camera phone :lol:

http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm (http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm)

[c0sie]

The word "wow" just doesnt do those pics any justice..

[josh_smaxx]

Thats amazing...

[wezzer]

WOW!
how cool are they :woot:

[dan r]

ace :woot::woot:

[stegger]

Superb photo's, didn't know jimmy was an Astronaut:p:p:p

[glypo]

Awesome shots, nice link. As NASA is US tax-payer funded they are made to put all their photos online, in the public domain. Their online galleries are massive but for a rainy day, I would certainly reccomend people to go through.

[Chris Doughty]

unbeliveable! truly, the clarity just does not look real! :drool: :thumbsup:

[jimmy]

I think Nasa use Nikon cameras specially tuned for space antics - though these look more like medium or large format shots than SLR 35mm, but I'm told that things look clearer in space since there's no haze etc... nice tho eh!

[rc10andy]

Fantastic pics but is it me or does that shuttle look a bit 'second hand'? lol

[Cruise]

Afaik NASA uses Hasselblad cameras.At least they did for a long time.

Cruise

[stegger]

I think Nasa use Nikon cameras specially tuned for space antics - though these look more like medium or large format shots than SLR 35mm, but I'm told that things look clearer in space since there's no haze etc... nice tho eh!
THEY SHOULD BE USING CANON:mad::woot::woot:

[jimmy]

yeah these look like medium format to me - but they have used Nikon for many years also and recently bought 48 Nikon D2XS Cameras.

[Chris Green]

wow. they are amazing. :)

[dave g]

i had one of those pics as my screensaver on my laptop at worksop a few months ago if you remember jimmy..you took a picture of it :)

[mole2k]

I've heard of NASA using both Hassleblad and Nikon camera's, I've no idea what these ones are taken on. With some exceptional glass they could be 35mm but it would be a lot easier to get that sorta detail from MF.

It very possibly is their own inhouse design lenses along the lines of 50mm with a fixed aperture of f8 or so as I dont really think they would need to be that adjustable and getting more in focus would be more of a priority than a nice shallow dof with a oof earth.

[glypo]

NASA don't exclusively use a single camera manufacturer.

However on the Space Shuttle I'm pretty sure they use Nikon bodies with lenses developed together and produced by Nikon. However as said below, a lot of the time they still use Hasselblad as far as I am aware. Film camera wise, they used to use 70mm and 35mm, I'm not sure what they use now. Must be MF to get the kind of quality they do.

There is lots of rubbish on the net about what NASA use. Mainly because all of NASA's spending is published so people see NASA making orders for certain types of cameras. However they tend to forget that NASA is an Aeronautics administration, and was long before the space programme came along (NACA). So lots of cameras gets used for aviation photography.... check out the Dryden (http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/Photo/) and Langley (http://lisar.larc.nasa.gov/) sub-sites for some wicked and massive aviation galleries.

A lot, if not all, the lenses are prime/FFL. I'm not sure about fixed aperture size though? Seems like a fairly important feature to lose control of.

[telboy]

Nice photos, but we all know that they aren't actually in space.:p
They're just in a studio in a warehouse in 'Area 51'.:lol:


Top stuff.

[bondy]

Hope they aint got any IB4200's powering anything up there ! :confused:

Hey if we could build a track in space we wouldnt have to worry about the weather ! that would be good ! :thumbsup:

[bondy]

Fantastic pics but is it me or does that shuttle look a bit 'second hand'? lol


Think its got a few miles on the clock aswell. Service times are a bit long dont think its £30 an hour? but the intervals are quite long anything from 2,000,000 miles to 5,700,000 miles so thats a bonus :thumbsup: Id put it on Ebay you might get a bit for it in the end :confused:

[glypo]

Kinda on topic. Anyone seen this madness:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7330925.stm

What kind of mad telescopic lens do you need on your camera to take photos of the space station as it passes overhead! You need perfect timing too, it's only visible for around 30 seconds or so.

I saw the photographer on the TV not long ago (sky at night I think - I know I'm sad lol). Just an amateur thing done as a hobby, cool nevertheless.

If that wasn't cool enough, how about this:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060921.html

Space shuttle has just left the ISS and you can see the space shuttle silhouette just to the left of the ISS. Click on the image to see the full sun. Very cool I think.

[OldTimer]

I know they use Nikons with a 600mm lens, and also Kodak 760C with a 800mm lens for earth shots like this.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/ISS016-E-18493_lrg.jpg

[niggs98]

Superb photo's, didn't know jimmy was an Astronaut:p:p:p

its even amazing that he found the time to pop up there for 5 mins whilst doing his neo report :woot: