Way cool. In shot 6 at the base of the rocket, is that a beer can used as a support? If so, a prime example of engineering - if it works, it is the right tool for the job... ]=) Cheers Ecke
2009/10/4 Bob W <[email protected]>: > 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. > -- 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.
