CAMERA B-15 WAS USED IN MISSION 8114 FLOWN ON 19 AUGUST 1966

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A000600190036-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: August 23, 1966
• Content Type: CABLE

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I. CAMERA B-15 WAS USED IN MISSION 8114 FLOWN ON 19 AUGUST
1966. PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY NAV RECON TECH SUPPCEN.
~?. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE:
A. EXPOSURE WAS ADEQUATE AND THE RESOLUTION IS GOOD.
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B. 9R SIDE: ROLLER CHATTER AND EDGE FOG ARE PRESENT
ON BO"'H FILM EDGES BUT LESS NOTICEABLE ON THE INBOARD EDGE. A
BAND OF FOG EXTENDS DIAGONALLY INTO SEVERAL FRAMES OF THE MISSIO ii
IT IS APPROXIMATELY 0.7 INCH WIDE AND 2.5 INCHES LONG. EXAMPLES
OF THE FOG ARE LOCATED ON FRAMES 1020 THROUGH 1022, 1085, AND
1709. FOG, PERPENDICULAR TO THE MAJOR AXIS, EXTENDS ACROSS
FRAME 219. FOG IS ALSO PRESENT ALONG THE OUTBOARD EDGE OF
FRAME: 1262 AND 1263. A CREASE AND ASSOCIATED STATIC TRACES I
PRESENT IN FRAME 1093. A BREAKDOWN SPLICE IS IN THE FORMAT OF
FRAME 1008 AND A MANUFACTURER'S SPLICE IS IN FRAME 323. VARIO
STATIC TRACES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE MANUFACTURER'S SPLICE ON
FRAME 323.
C. 9L SIDE: THERE ARE MANUFACUTRER'S SPLICES BETWEEN
FRAME 0009/0010, AND IN FRAME 1827. HEAT SPLICES ARE PRESENT
BETWEEN FRAMES 0265/0266, 0549/0550, 0871/0872, 1746/1747, AND
IN FRAME 1096. IN THE BEGINNING OF THE MISSION THERE IS A ROW
OF MINUS DENSITY DOTS 5.6 INCHES FROM THE INBOARD EDGE AND
SPACEE 1.7 INCHES APART. THESE MINOR DOTS DISAPPEAR BY FRAME
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0025. THERE IS MINOR ROLLER CHATTER ON THE INBOARD EDGE, AND
MINOR EDGE STATIC ON THE OUTBOARD EDGE, THROUGHOUT THE MISSION.
EDGE CRIMPING ON THE INBOARD EDGE IS PRESENT ON THE LAST 117
FRAMES. THIS FIGURE CORRESPONDS TO THE LAST CAN OF THE MISSION.
PLUS AND MINUS DENSITY AREAS, OF A MINOR NATURE, APPEAR IN FRAME
1096. THESE MAY BE CAUSED BY THE HEAT SPLICE MADE IN THAT FRAME.
A MINOR PLUS DENSITY STREAK IS PRESENT, ACROSS TRACK, IN FRAME
0002. A TRANSVERSE BAND OF FOG IS FOUND IN FRAME 0311.
D. BOTH SIDES: THE DATA BLOCK EXPOSURE COUNTER FAILED
TO OPERATE THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. THE FRAMES ARE CONSECUTIVELY
TITLED 0001 THROUGH 2117.
E. THERE WERE NO MAJOR PROCESSING MALFUNCTIONS.
3. POSITIVE:
A. PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD.
B. PRINTING AND PROCESSING WERE GOOD.
C. CLOUDS AND HAZE COVER 25 PERCENT OF THE MISSION.
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