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Popular Mechanics: Did you have a chance to work with the camera before you got up there?
Greg Johnson: I did. We saw the camera at Goddard before it was incorporated intoAtlantis, and we actually had a chance to shoot a scene with it against the full mockup of the Hubble with spacewalkers inside in the neutral-buoyancy tank. [Director] Toni Myers took that scene and made it into 3D so we could see what the effect was and what our end product was going to be. I was the primary operator, and then the commander, Scott Altman, was the backup. Because they were trying to make a film out of it, it was important to get certain scenes, which were each between 20 and 30 seconds long. So those scenes were laid out in advance, and Toni trained us on that list and on the possible malfunctions that could occur. But like everything in space flight, things changed, so we would get an update every day with the scenes that we needed to shoot that day based on what we got or couldn’t get the day before.

PM: Did you have any experience with cameras before this?
GJ: Not a lot. We get trained on cameras so I was the photo TV person for the flight, and everybody got trained on the hi-def camcorder. I was sort of the lead, so if they had questions on photo TV, I was the guy they came to.
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