First space Hasselblad goes under the hammer The first Hasselblad camera to travel into space will go under the hammer next week, over 50 years after it was carried aloft by Walter M Schirra on the Mercury MA-8 mission. View of the first Hasselblad in space The first Hasselblad in space - yours for $10k+ Camera enthusiast Schirra bought the 500c and 80mm Zeiss lens …
Potentially yes.
If you know anything about Hasselblad and "medium format" cameras you'd know they have interchangeable backs. So for film you'd use a film back and there are lots of digital backs to fit.
So it's not beyond the realms of impossibility that a digital back with Internet connectivity could be made. But obviously it wouldn't given this camera would take a 40 megapixel image typically.
The reason that the stars do not show up in the photo is that the stars are so dim that the camera cannot gather enough of their light in a short exposure. Our eyes are a lot more sensitive to light than photographic film hence you can see them standing on earth, but I bet you would have much the same issue taking a photo of them and having them visible - without using some really long exposure settings.
"Not baiting here". Right, you write dumb messages attached to every space article wondering where the stars are. You've been told repeatedly that's a silly question, and people even have attempted to educate you on basic photography, but nope, you just keep doing it.
And now you're asking why nobody has photographed the sun? Have you ever looked at the sun, for even a moment? No imagine doing that through an unfiltered lens. Please don't ask stupid questions, or ask a 5th grader, who will think it's a stupid question too, but may have more patience with the crazy person.
"That's a star. why have none of these Astronauts turned 180 degrees and took a snap of the sun?"
The Skylab space station actually spent a great deal of time photographing the sun through a telescope. For astronauts, they have photographed the sun while on space walks:
http://www.space.com/17495-astronaut-touches-sun-spacewalk-photo.html
It was in the news and one of the top results of my simple Google search: astronaut photograph of sun
Switching to image search produced a wealth of space-based photos of the sun. I think this one: a selfie with the Earth and sun as a background.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-32/hires/iss032e025258.jpg
Sun and solar wing:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/5197445442_b69a8d5da6_b.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/03/article-2572080-1BFF782000000578-473_964x557.jpg
Quite right - not just the moon landings but in fact all space travel is faked. It is of course quite impossible to penetrate the crystal dome that our flat land is nestled beneath, within the encircling sea. The only remaining puzzle is why the Govt of our land goes to such extraordinary lengths to maintain the fiction of other countries existing.
You could of course get a disposable film camera (they still exist) and try taking a picture of the sky at night. Or use your phone camera.
The ISO speed of the dark adapted human eye is around 60 000, whereas back in the 1970s most film speed was around 50-400 ISO, and a handheld Hasselblad will not give full sharpness for exposures more than about 1/100 sec, shorter if the FP shutter is used (even very small camera shake prevents stars from being imaged because they are effectively point sources, so you cannot hold the image steady on one part of the film). You would need to be able to hold the camera rock still for an exposure of about 20 seconds to image stars.
Thus, if you see pictures of illuminated, moving objects in space and stars are visible, it is fakery.
It's a shame that Tom Wolfe didn't complete his original project of writing about the entire US space program up to the space shuttle. Granted, this would probably have meant that he didn't get diverted into test pilot anthropology and it wouldn't have been half as good, but in my dreams what we have is just "The Right Stuff volume 1 of 3"
"Seeing as nobody else has asked what seems to be an obvious question, I'll ask it....why is he wearing 2 wristwatches in the 2nd photo?"
Because he's a f*cking astronaut and can do what he damn well pleases! Dagnabbit, Wally Schirra craps more awesome after a night on Sam Adams that you can bring in a week with all your computer cleverness!
Now, get off his lawn!
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