FILM EVALUATION MISSION 3238

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A000700130059-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 59
• Content Type: CABLE

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FROM NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER. SUBJECT: FILM
EVALUATION MISSION 3238.
1. CAMERA C 118 WAS USED IN MISSION 3238 FLOWN ON 10 NOVEMBER
1963; PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY EASTMAN KODAK.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE: TTFS tT'
A. THE RESOLUTION IS GOOD EXCEPT IN ALL OUTBOARD
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CORNERS WHERE THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT DROP IN QUALITY. THE
EXPOSURE IS ADEQUATE BUT THE DENSITY OF THE NEGATIVE VARIES FROM THIN TO HEAVY DUE TO THE PARTICULAR COMBINATION OF SUN ANGLE AND HEAVY SNOW COVER. B. 9R SIDE: SEE PARAGRAPH D.
C. 9L SIDE: SEE PARAGRAPH D.
D. BOTH SIDES: THE METERING IS SLIGHTLY ERRATIC
THROUGHOUT THE FILM. MINOR, INTERMITTENT EDGE STATIC TRACES ARE
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PRESENT ON ALL FILM EDGES THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. WEAK IMAGES OF
SEVERAL POSITION INDICATORS ADJACENT TO THE CORRECT
INDICATOR LAMP ARE OBSERVED IN EACH FRAME. THE VERTICAL
INDICATOR DOT IS OVEREXPOSED AND BLOSSMED. THERE ARE 3542
'KITLED FRAMES ON EACH SIDE OF THIS MISSION.
E. NO MAJOR CAMERA MALFUNCTIONS OR PROCESSING FAULTS WERE
ENCOUNTERED.
3. POSITIVE:
A. PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD.
B. PRINTING AND PROCESSING ARE GOOD.
C. CLOUDS OBSCURE APPROXIMATELY 25 PER CENT OF THIS
MISSION. SCP-1
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