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Here is an interesting bit of photo urban legend stuff.
Did you ever hear of the 50's satellite program called Corona.
If so:
Do you know if the film used on it later became kodak ektacolor 25 the forerunner of royal gold 25 ect.
The myth, if it is one, is that in the fifties they had a sat program that rolled over the ussr shooting photographs on film no less. Film that could give the license number of a truck shot from outter space. That the film was then dropped back into the atmosphere and snagged by planes... now that is all true.
The myth part may be that the film was classified and once the sats went digital, kodak brought it out as ektacolor25 or royal gold 25 some say it was actuallly a tmax kind of film that was used. Still the myth goes on anyway about ektacolor25.
Has anyone else heard this story and no I'm not making it up.
Did you ever hear of the 50's satellite program called Corona.
If so:
Do you know if the film used on it later became kodak ektacolor 25 the forerunner of royal gold 25 ect.
The myth, if it is one, is that in the fifties they had a sat program that rolled over the ussr shooting photographs on film no less. Film that could give the license number of a truck shot from outter space. That the film was then dropped back into the atmosphere and snagged by planes... now that is all true.
The myth part may be that the film was classified and once the sats went digital, kodak brought it out as ektacolor25 or royal gold 25 some say it was actuallly a tmax kind of film that was used. Still the myth goes on anyway about ektacolor25.
Has anyone else heard this story and no I'm not making it up.