Hand held camera shots from space

greenpea

I've seen lots of pictures from space, but none that were explicitly advertised as being taken with a hand held camera. Here are a bunch taken from the ISS...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35243810/ns/technology_and_science-picture_stories/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1

One thing I noted, the pictures were taken with Nikon glass, which the ISS is equipped with. I figure if Nikon is good enough for the ISS, it's good enough for me! :wink

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Sam

One thing I noted, the pictures were taken with Nikon glass, which the ISS is equipped with. I figure if Nikon is good enough for the ISS, it's good enough for me!

Low bid.................rofl

Sam

greenpea

Sam wrote:

One thing I noted, the pictures were taken with Nikon glass, which the ISS is equipped with. I figure if Nikon is good enough for the ISS, it's good enough for me! <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/mwink.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

Low bid.................<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/rolleyes1.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >rofl<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/rolleyes1.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

Sam

I sure hope that the development of the ISS wasn't based on the lowest bidder <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/eek7.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >
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moose135

greenpea wrote:

I sure hope that the development of the ISS wasn't based on the lowest bidder <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/eek7.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >
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It's a government contract, it's always the lowest bidder <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/thumb.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

Llywellyn

Don is a cool guy. After the handheld stuff, he jury-rigged the old IMAX setup on ISS to create a barndoor tracker so he could take long-exposure night shots from space. We've just finalized an article with him about his night shots. Coolest article I've worked on yet!

met

moose135 wrote:

It's a government contract, it's always the lowest bidder

And here I thought it went to states that had Senators on the finance committee, districts with Congressmen that had some sort of leverage on a completed unrelated vote that needs passed or to companies that make significant campaign contributions.