Late yesterday, the space agency sent Jernigan – a former shuttle flyer and now manager at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories – to the astronomer's home to view the image, and have the Nikon camera brought to Houston today.
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"I couldn't see the discharge with my own eyes, but it showed up clear and bright on the film when I developed it," the photographer previously said.
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Show us proof that the "Nikon camera" camera used (and taken by Jernigan to NASA Houston) is the model you pictured.
Personally, I'll believe the photographer knew what he was talking about when he said,
End of discussion.
Original article. Seventh graf.
Page from which I obtained photo of the back of the 880.
He probably just called the flash memory card "film" because he's been calling it film all his life. Whatever you put in the camera that records the photos is the "film," regardless of whether it's strips of celluloid or a computer chip.