What commercial camera products have been developed over the years to work specifically with rockets?
Camroc The first purpose-designed rocket camera. Designed by Estes and sold from 1965 to 1974. A marvel of simplicity, it was patterned after several homebrew cameras of the early ’60s (see 5.1.2). It was simply a cylindrical body that held the film topped by a hemispherical nose that was flattened off to accept the optical window which the forward facing lens looked through. One shot per flight on “Astropan 400″ (Kodak Tri-X) cut into a 1 1/2” dia. round negative. Easy to process at home. The film had to be push processed to 1200 ASA (officially, though most home developers went to 1600). Extremely valuable on the collector market. [Note: Don’t write me asking how much your old Camroc’s worth. Bob Sanford (72020.371@compuserve.com) tracks those sorts of things – JH] Greg Smith (smith@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu) describes some of the various hacks of the Camroc: “At one time there were quite a few homebrew modifications to the Camroc floating around. Most popular was substituting a 3-element
