Artemis II photography

Hi.

Does anyone have detailed information about the photographic equipment the Artemis II crew is using?

I’ve heard some vague mentions of the difficulties the commander and the Canadian specialist have been having with smartphones and GoPros.

I tried to find more official information but couldn’t.

The fact is that very few images have been released, and almost all of them are of poor quality, which is surprising.

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I was thinking the exact same thing this morning while reading the news. Most of the images from the spacecraft have been poor quality. But apparently there is a Nikon D5 with 14-24 F2.8 lens onboard, and a few shots are starting to come in.

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They have to get some free time after all the system checks they need to do. They need to find the camera from the storage location. They then need to have the earth in the field of view of the window. They then need to take the image. They then need to transfer the image to a computer to edit the images and make the flat earth look round :slight_smile: Then at last they need to transfer the images using the bandwidth that is being used for other stuff. Of course they could also send SOOC or have the ground crew do the edits from raw.

I’m sure we will see more images.

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Oh, thanks for the link. Yes, those are nice.

Sure, they seem to be pretty busy. Thnks for the Petapixel article, that is what I was looking for

Surely there’s wifi access at the Hollywood studio lot they’re on.

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Moderately interesting article about the launch photos here.

Sound triggers apparently - wouldn’t have thought of that!

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