Fantastic! They must have some real historical significance I'd have thought.
Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Brendan MacRae > Sent: 04 October 2009 17:22 > To: pdml > Subject: OT: Will and the Rocket Boys > > I've offered up a couple of pithy aphorisms to this list by > Will Connell, Sr., the photographer who founded the > photography department at the Art Center College of Design in > Pasadena. His son, Will Jr., is married to my aunt and we've > become fast friends recently. > > When Will Jr. was in college studying engineering in the late > 1950's, he and his peers were big into rocketry. They built > their rockets, 7' long, 150lb monsters (some with > two-stages), and launched them in the high desert above Los > Angeles. If you've seen the movie October Sky about former > NASA engineer Homer Hickam, well, Will's is a similar story. > After college Will went into the aerospace industry and > worked on the X-15 rocket plane among other projects. > > He asked me recently if I would scan some old 6x6 and 6x9 > color negatives of his rocketry launches. I don't know what > emulsions were used but it was some form of Kodak Safety Film > from the late 50's. There were also two (2) 6x9 color > transparencies. I don't know what kind of cameras were used > for the 6x9 images, but the 6x6's were made on a TLR of some > type. You'll notice that the pressure plate of this camera > was not keeping the film flat at the time of exposure as the > edges are uniformly soft. The negs were scanned on my Nikon > 9000ED at 2000 dpi. The photos were taken by a friend of Will's. > > I asked Will if I could share these with y'all and he thought > that was fine. Enjoy! > > http://www.primelensphoto.com/wills_rocketry_photos/index.html > > -Brendan > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
