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HD Video From the Edge of Space, On the Cheap

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @08:06AM from the commendably-few-casualties dept.

SoundDoc75 links to a page describing the motivations and problem-solving behind "a 10-minute HD video taken on August 24th with a Canon Vixia HF20 HD camera suspended from a 1500g hydrogen balloon and launched near Edmonton, Alberta. This is the first known amateur video taken from this height — 107,145 feet."

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Re:First amateurs? Not quite! by the+99th+penguin · 2009-09-23 10:04 · Score: 5, Informative

The Apollo astronauts were trained by a professional photographer on how to use the custom (Hasselbak or something close to that.) cameras for use on the moon.
They were modified Hasselblad cameras (a very nice medium format film camera). They brought the film back but left the cameras on the moon.