These guys need an Epic..

[Chad Lancaster]

http://petapixel.com/2013/06/10/pho...he-cupola-on-the-international-space-station/

 

[william howell]

I've been screaming this for years... I'm on earth though.. So... Nobody listens to me.

 

[Samir Patel]

I would expect that has a lot to do with weight restrictions. After all DSLR is a lot lighter than an EPIC and EVF or LCD + REDmags plus all the other stuff and the RED rocket station needed to offload. Unless you are sending them up with 2000 REDmags

 

[Chad Lancaster]

I would expect that has a lot to do with weight restrictions. After all DSLR is a lot lighter than an EPIC and EVF or LCD + REDmags plus all the other stuff and the RED rocket station needed to offload. Unless you are sending them up with 2000 REDmags

exchange all those dslr's for the epic

 

[Peter Majtan]

exchange all those dslr's for the epic

touché :reddevil:

 

[Grzegorz Gill]

exchange all those dslr's for the epic

Reminds me of one of those picture books when you were a kid. You know, how many DSLRS do you see? I count 9!

 

[Phil Holland]

They actually have a slew of Nikon glass up there. Just need an Epic with a mount and good to go. No need for an EasyRig or anything up there

 

[Petr Dvorak]

I've been screaming this for years... I'm on earth though.. So... Nobody listens to me.

++++++++1

Its real crime that NASA is not shooting any 4K raw footage in the space! Hey NASA what are you waiting for?

 

[NateWeaver]

Hey NASA what are you waiting for?

Now really, would you bet your job at NASA on an Epic booting every time, flawlessly, for weeks on end?

I'm not trying to be an ass. But really, think about it.

I'd bet lunch NASA owns a few Red Ones & Epics and have been using and testing for quite some time. Their imaging staff, budget and resources are huge.

 

[Gabe Conroy]

Their imaging staff, budget and resources are huge.

Is it though? I remember them buying a bunch of AF100's a while back...

 

[Björn Benckert]

Odd with the glass dome, and then shooting without pushing the lens to the glas, must be mad reflections, no?

 

[NateWeaver]

I'm sure those AF100s fulfilled a very specific need/price/use case.

Just going on my knowledge of JPL, which is a few miles from me, they have a huge swath of devices.

NASA has camera gear you can barely imagine. As recently as 2005 they used 84 cameras on every launch, a good portion of them 35mm motion picture film. You think they haven't got a few Reds to play with too?

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/167722main_LaunchImagery06.pdf

 

[Pablo Moreno]

++++++++1

Its real crime that NASA is not shooting any 4K raw footage in the space! Hey NASA what are you waiting for?

Technically, they are shooting 4K still images.. don't forget that 4K is the same as 14 megapixels..

 

[Corey_O]

The video was pretty interesting.

 

[Matthew Scott]

Technically, they are shooting 4K still images.. don't forget that 4K is the same as 14 megapixels..

4K isn't 14mp..... 4096x2160 is closer to 9mp right? But I see your point

 

[william howell]

I can shed some light on this..

at jsc, the run and gun cameras are 5d mark ii's. Stationary broadcast cameras are all over the place, but those usually feed into control rooms.... Like mini mission control rooms... Only older looking...

No 4k cameras at jsc that I'm aware of... Not in the sense that we all think of..

Headquarters in dc has a ton of Panasonic broadcast cameras... They still shoot to tape... At least they did a few years ago.

The launches used to (crying on my keyboard) have a ton of cameras... All different formats including 70mm film.... That's due to many factors.... Those had to be reliable.... To be analyzed in case of the unspeakable.


4k, 6k, hell... Even 20k sensors are old news to some of the project managers at different space centers... Think Hubble...

however.... The highest res "every day" camera I'm aware of in the field... Is the canon 5dmarkii.

on earth that is.