NASA and Nikon have announced that the space administration has ordered 11 D3S DSLR cameras for use in space, and Nikon is showcasing some of the captured images.
NASA is using the D3S cameras on the International Space Station for photographing activities. Nikon says it has not made any modifications to the D3S cameras for use in the ISS.
Some of the images captured by NASA with the D3S are available through the Nikon Web site.
Nikon and NASA have partnered for shooting photographs in space for nearly 40 years, beginning in 1971 with the Apollo 15 flight to the moon.
The D3S, which costs more than $5,000, has made my list of the best new Nikon cameras.
Photo courtesy Nikon
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Its good to hear that NASA is using NIKON as their official space camera. Nikon has the reputation of being durable and also has the capacity to produce good images. NASA has been using NIKON for quite sometime now so the images that we are seeing for NASA’s reports were all captured from a NIKON camera.