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Apollo 11 photography debrief
onebigmonkey:
Was searching for other things and came across a document I'd not seen before:
https://repository.hou.usra.edu/items/3d7cdcb1-602b-4233-bedb-c91596c83475
It's a transcript of a debrief of photography (and other EVA matters) held a week after the much more wide ranging technical debrief. It has some interesting comments on ease of mobility, surface conditions, using the camera.
There's a similar one for Apollo 16:
https://repository.hou.usra.edu/items/7c0df2e3-1f29-4e9e-a885-2a5a4e5955b5
All sorts of obscure docs on there :)
TimberWolfAu:
Saw the cover page of the first link and I swear I have this one, need to check once off work.
Still, there's actually a response to a HB complaint from Apollo 11; IIRC, there's 'issues' with the photos of the plaque on the leg because one photo is too dark but the next one is well lit. The argument being 'how could Armstrong know to change the settings if they didn't develop the film until after they got back? How did he know it was too dark?', yet right at the beginning of the debrief we have Armstrong saying how if they thought the picture would be important, they took multiple with different settings.
As usual, it seems like all the answers are out there if people are willing to look.
smartcooky:
--- Quote from: TimberWolfAu on February 11, 2025, 06:13:17 PM ---Saw the cover page of the first link and I swear I have this one, need to check once off work.
Still, there's actually a response to a HB complaint from Apollo 11; IIRC, there's 'issues' with the photos of the plaque on the leg because one photo is too dark but the next one is well lit. The argument being 'how could Armstrong know to change the settings if they didn't develop the film until after they got back? How did he know it was too dark?', yet right at the beginning of the debrief we have Armstrong saying how if they thought the picture would be important, they took multiple with different settings.
As usual, it seems like all the answers are out there if people are willing to look.
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Even a rank amateur photographer can tell you what "bracketing" means
https://digital-photography-school.com/bracketing-what-is-it-and-what-to-do-with-the-images/
"Bracketing is a camera technique where you capture several different exposures of the same scene. In other words, you capture a standard image, a darker/underexposed version and a brighter/overexposed version."
bknight:
--- Quote from: smartcooky on February 12, 2025, 02:29:39 PM ---
--- Quote from: TimberWolfAu on February 11, 2025, 06:13:17 PM ---Saw the cover page of the first link and I swear I have this one, need to check once off work.
Still, there's actually a response to a HB complaint from Apollo 11; IIRC, there's 'issues' with the photos of the plaque on the leg because one photo is too dark but the next one is well lit. The argument being 'how could Armstrong know to change the settings if they didn't develop the film until after they got back? How did he know it was too dark?', yet right at the beginning of the debrief we have Armstrong saying how if they thought the picture would be important, they took multiple with different settings.
As usual, it seems like all the answers are out there if people are willing to look.
--- End quote ---
Even a rank amateur photographer can tell you what "bracketing" means
https://digital-photography-school.com/bracketing-what-is-it-and-what-to-do-with-the-images/
"Bracketing is a camera technique where you capture several different exposures of the same scene. In other words, you capture a standard image, a darker/underexposed version and a brighter/overexposed version."
--- End quote ---
HBs are unconcerned with with that. I once was arguing with one a couple of years back, He asked me how much photography experience I had, to which I replied truthfully, none. He replied that he would no longer discuss Apollo with someone who did not know photography. He told me if I had any experience I would know what was "wrong" with the images. That was that with this guy.
TimberWolfAu:
--- Quote from: bknight on February 12, 2025, 08:31:11 PM ---He replied that he would no longer discuss Apollo with someone who did not know photography. He told me if I had any experience I would know what was "wrong" with the images. That was that with this guy.
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The classic "If you don't know, then I can't tell you" response.
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