(SANITIZED) FILM EVALUATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04555A000200040056-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: July 24, 1969
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUB.J 1 [FILM EVALUATION
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS ARE A "RESULT OF AN EVALUATION
YRAPIES t -225 .EX CEPT 05 AND ; 09) FROM THE TES
MISS;IOA FLOWN ON~ 23 APR 69.
1. IMAGE ' QUALITY:THE IMAGE QUALITY IS " POOR AT T tE VERY" BEGINNING
F THE ISSION";. HOWEVER, THE QUALITY IMPROVES THROUGHOUT
T,HE"";FIRRST." ?~f FRAMES.'` SOFT FOCUS,-AND. UNDEREXPOSURE CAUSE MUCH
OF THE n.E.GRADATION. THE' IMAGERY .IN THE AREA AFFECTED BY THE 0.
NEUTRAL `l "ENSITY? FILTER ;APPEARS' TO BE SHARPER THAN THE IMAGERY
THE ADJOINING AREA.
2. 'ORIGINAL NEGATIVES
A. 'EXPOSURE: GENERALLY "UNDERE?XPOSE D. EXTREMELY LONG
THE IMAGERY INDICATE THAT THE S.Q"L' AR ELEVATION WAS VERY
Bf:. STATIC: NONE
BANDING: SEVERE HIGH P EQ11ENCY BANDING IS NOTED IN
RANDOMLY SPADED FRAMES 3ETWEEN FRAMES 15.7' AND 225.
0. METERING: GOOD" THROUGHOUT.
E AUXILIARY .DATA': THE WRITE-IN'DATA CARD IS UNREADABLE,
ALL OTHER DADA RECORDINGS ARE SATISFACTORY.
3- 110 PROCESSING AND' TITLING:. THEN'MATERIAL" SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
TT'LD ON THE BASE SIDE RATHER T~iA THE EMULSION SIDE. WHEN
ATERTAL IS "ON A LIGHT TABLE WIT} THE TITLING RIGHT READING.,;
"THE GROUND SCENE IS -' REVERSED (IMAGERY TO THE. LEFT OF THE FRAM
IEB WITH THE .TERRAIN TO, THE RIGHT OF .THE VEHICLE) . THE
; IG;INAL a NEGATIVE MUST BE VIE ED THROUGH THE BASE IN ORDER TO
T~ AG RY REFLECT THE TRUE GROUND" SCENE.
4 V X IC1 NDUC D A NO[ ALIES: FLUCTUATIONS IN THE V/H
AND : VARIATION IN FORM RD OVERLAP INDICATE THAT THE VEHICLE
?ITCHI iG EXCESSIVELY `D.URING FL'IGHT'.
5::. .COMME:NTS: THE; CHANGE IN .IMAGE QUALITY THROUGHOUT THE
FIRST 22 FRAMES COULD BE AN INDICAT?ION THAT A LONGER WARM-t
'IME IS `NEED ;BEFORE THE CAMERA IS TURNED ON.
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