Jon,

The original LFC film resides in our Archives.  The film types are listed below:

3414  Black & White (four rolls of the eight LFC rolls are this film type)
Kodak high-definition aerial film High-definition film designed for very high altitude reconnaissance photography.  Features a 2.5-mil Estar base with a dyed-gel backing.


3412 Black & White (one roll of the eight LFC rolls are this film type)
Kodak Panatomic-X Aerocon II.  Fine-grained panchromatic film generally used in small-format aerial reconnaissance photography.  Features a 2.5-mil Estar base with a dyed-gel backing.


SO-242 Color  (one roll of the eight LFC rolls are this film type)
Kodak aerial color film (Estar thin base).  Color, slow-speed, high-definition, high-resolution film for high-altitude aerial photography, on 2.5-mil Estar polyester support.  Skylab S190-A.


SO-131 Color  (one roll of the eight LFC rolls are this film type)
Kodak high resolution color IR film.

Best,


John Faundeen, Archivist
U.S. Geological Survey, EROS Center
47914-252nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57198 USA
Office: 605-594-6092  Mobile: 605-838-7081


On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I’ve got a ton of SkyLab film!!! I’ve never heard of anyone else having it.  Who else does?

I also have 9x18 film from a space shuttle large-format camera.  It’s AMAZING they were shooting a 9x18” film camera into orbit.  

I know some of this stuff is available on EarthExplorer, but it’s not comprehensive.  I have not had a chance to research how this film was made.  Some of it is obviously copy film (and it would be silly to think that UCSB has the camera film that flew in orbit), but my memory of looking at it under a loupe is that some of it is super high quality.  

Does anyone have some details about the program that distributed these film sets?

Jon R. Jablonski
Director, Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory
Curator for Cartographic Materials
UCSB Library
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On Jan 19, 2017, at 8:34 AM, Bigwood, David <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Would it be too much trouble to check if it has info on the underfilghts for the Skylab Earth Resource Experiment package back in 1972? We have the film but not much documentation. For example, on the 9th flight we have 3 rolls of film. Not sure if that is all or if we are missing rolls. The experiment was to have a plane do aerial photography along the same path as the space station and then compare the two.
 
Thanks,
David Bigwood
Lunar and Planetary Institute
 
From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [mailto:[log in to unmask]EDU] On Behalf Of Jeff Essic
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 7:50 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: APSRS CDs - Database of aerial photo missions
 
That's great David, I would love to see the database.  If it's too large to email, let me know and I'll send details about our file sharing service.  I'm really glad you did this export.
 
Thanks,
Jeff
 
 
 
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 7:39 AM, David Hodnefield <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I’m pretty sure the ASPRS database has not been updated since 1996.  Some years ago I migrated the ASPRS database into MS Access.  I did it by exporting all the records to comma delimited text files.  I don’t recall the exact process anymore, but I’m pretty sure I did the export based on the type of film (B&W, Color, BIR, CIR).  Because all the fields come out as pure text, the files were rather large. It was a rather slow process, but at least it only had to be done once!   I recommend exporting the records and then importing the text files into a more powerful database like SQL (MS Access is too wimpy). Splitting the one flat table into multiple tables would make for a more efficient database (it may be possible to export some of the other tables from ASPRS).  Feel free to contact me if you have more questions.
 
David
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David Hodnefield, President
Historical Information Gatherers
 
 
From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [mailto:[log in to unmask]EDU] On Behalf Of Jeff Essic
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 4:07 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: APSRS CDs - Database of aerial photo missions
 
Hello,
 
The APSRS CDs released in the mid-1990s contain an database used to list all the federal-level aerial photo missions covering any given 7.5 minute quadrangle area.  To use, one must install a front-end software app for querying the underlying database.  The software is 16-bit and thus cannot be installed on modern 64-bit computers.  Meanwhile, the underlying database appears to be in a proprietary binary format that can't be easily opened and read.
 
I am thus wondering if anyone knows of a continuity plan to update the software and/or the database?  Or is there an alternative means for accessing the data, perhaps something online?  Using EarthExplorer, this can be done in a round-about way, but you have to select each agency one at a time to see what may possibly be available.
 
By the way, APSRS (not to be confused with ASPRS) stands for Aerial Photography Summary Record System.
 
I appreciate your thoughts and ideas!
 
Jeff Essic
 
 
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