One of the interesting things I discovered from looking at Lunar Orbiter photographs is how they photographed the moon.
The probes actually took and developed photographs in lunar orbit. The resulting images were scanned inside the probe and the data sent back by FM signals. So, if the radiation environment of the moon was so lethal to camera film, then these photographs would not exist. Apollo deniers often forget that the missions did not exist in isolation, and a long program of research and development preceded them, and that some of these supposedly insurmountable problems had actually been considered and worked around.
The main concern they had with the film was preventing it become rigid by being in the same place too long, and the 'Photo of the century' (a stunning oblique view of Copernicus crater) is claimed to be a product of taking a photograph purely out of the need to advance the film by a frame to keep things moving.
The Orbiter series also researched micrometeroid impacts, radiation levels under different types of shielding, gravitational differences, and allowed Earth-based radar tracking to be practised.
