Posted on 12/24/2013 11:12:42 AM PST by Spruce
The Apollo astronauts used several types of cameras during their missions. Most of the classic images published in magazines of the day were taken by 70 mm Hasselblad cameras, but astronauts also used 35 mm Nikon cameras, a multispectral camera, a stereoscopic camera, and a Hycon Lunar Topographic camera. Both black and white and color film were used; however since that time, some color film has had to be digitally restored to correct for fading and other effects of aging
Until now, these film products have resided in cold storage or have been shelved and archived at NASA data repositories. Access to them required a trip to Houston, Washington DC, or other locations and for manual searches through binders, microfilm, or other catalogs, for which photographic reprints could be requested and produced. Indeed, the public, because of these limitations, has never had the opportunity to see most of the photos taken by the Apollo astronauts.
Thanks to the painstaking labors of the LPI staff, these priceless photographs have been digitally scanned and are now available in an easy to use online digital resource. It is now possible to browse through the image collection in its entirety in the comfort of your own home or library. These photographs, together with mission voice transcripts, represent the most complete log of the Apollo flights as they happened. Many of the images in this collection are mundane photographs of equipment, but images of the astronauts, of the Earth floating in the void of space, and of other extraterrestrial sights transcend description. As was often noted by the astronaut crew and is evidenced by lunar surface images, even the bleak lunar landscape retains a stark beauty of its own.
The archive can be found at this link
Moon Rising
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM-P08JcMr8
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Note you can plainly see the studio setting.
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Ask and you shall receive:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS11/40/5904.jpg
Other bad shots:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS11/40/5966A.jpg
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS11/40/5970.jpg
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS11/37/5507.jpg
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS11/37/5521.jpg
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS11/36/5429.jpg
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS12/47/7010.jpg
There are also in-between shots, that are interesting, but blurry or otherwise badly taken for various reasons:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS11/37/5532.jpg
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS11/37/5533.jpg
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