Film Processor-Dryer for Lunar Orbiter Photo System

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 76, No. 8, pp. 750–757
Abstract: High-quality processing and drying of photosensitive film, completely unattended in deep space and in a zero gravity environment, present a number of unique problems. The KODAK BIMAT Transfer Film Processing System was selected as the best method for meeting the processing needs of Lunar Orbiter. This system is basically a diffusion transfer process in which the processing chemicals, including moisture, are carried in a thin hydrophilic layer which is coated on an ESTAR Film Base support. This layer is brought into intimate contact with the exposed photosensitive film, at which time processing takes place. In order to maintain a consistently high level of processing quality, the environmental control system for the entire Photo System had to be carefully designed. The concept and operational details of this processor-dryer system arc described.
Publication Date: 1967-08-01
DOI: 10.5594/J09115
ISSN: Print: 0361-4573
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J09115
Author(s): J. J. MeyersApparatus & Optical Div., Eastman Kodak Co., 400 Plymouth Ave. North, Rochester, N.Y. 14650.
D. EndterApparatus & Optical Div., Eastman Kodak Co., 400 Plymouth Ave. North, Rochester, N.Y. 14650.
R. F. LimogesApparatus & Optical Div., Eastman Kodak Co., 400 Plymouth Ave. North, Rochester, N.Y. 14650.
Copyright: © 1967 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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1. Tarkington R. G. , “The Kodak Bimat Process,” Photogrammetric Engineering , 31 : Jan. 1965 . Presented at the March 1964 meeting of the American Society of Photogrammetry. EXTERNAL
2. Tarkington R. G. , “A new Kodak processing method for the aerospace age,” 1963 Annual Conference, The Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers. EXTERNAL
3. An Introduction to the Kodak Bimat Transfer Processing System, Kodak Pamphlet #P-65. EXTERNAL

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