What cameras are the Artemis II crew using?

Clovishound

Clovishound

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I got curious when I saw an article about them getting some never before taken shots of the earth. I looked it up and they have 3 cameras on board.

2 Z5s and 1 Z9.

I'm not surprised they have Nikons but I would have chosen a handful of Z8s. Or at least Z7iis. I'm sure they could afford whatever Nikon had to offer, heck, Nikon would probably have donated them for name recognition.
 
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BF Hammer

BF Hammer

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It is a pair of D5 DSLRs and a Z9. The Z9 is a trial to see how it works with radiation outside of low earth orbit. The ISS was only recently upgraded to Z9's.
 
Clovishound

Clovishound

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christian1972 said:
hummmm........ the stars..... 🤔
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Well, the images that were taken of the earth or moon with the sun shining on them, they won't have stars. If you expose for the sunlit planet, it will be approximately F16 at 1/100 sec at ISO 100. The EXIF data I looked at for the one with the crescent earth and the moon in the foreground was taken at 1/1000 sec, F8 and ISO 400, which is very close to the sunny 16 rule. No way that kind of exposure is going to be able to show the stars.

The one that had the moon eclipsing the sun and showed stars had an exposure of 2 sec, F2 and ISO 1600.

Thanks for posting the link, Needa. Some really neat images.
 
christian1972

christian1972

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BF Hammer said:
Sooo, you think the photos are fakes then?
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BF i'm saying nothing...
but I don't believe them 100%
no distortion on the corner pics and many others small things (pics are too perfect, camera don't snap pic when is pitch black etc etc) and over there in the space is pitch black or there is too much light
but anyway is my small thought
 
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