Colour TV Transmission Question

[raven]

Yep that is exactly what it was intended for. It could have worked in the 320 line mode as well, but was predominantly for backup in case the color hassleblads failed.

Heh, I just love some of the surprisingly low-tech solutions that Apollo had. It's really too bad that the slow scan tapes were lost, as they really show  significantly better detail and contrast, but the kinescope did its job.

[dwight]

This is the document regarding the adapter - just like you say, very low tech but very effective.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4960558/A11_color_test.pdf

The top color picture is from the adapter method and the bottom is a regular 35mm reference color photo.

[raven]

This is the document regarding the adapter - just like you say, very low tech but very effective.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4960558/A11_color_test.pdf

The top color picture is from the adapter method and the bottom is a regular 35mm reference color photo.

Not bad given the circumstances, and if the choice was that or nothing . . .

[DataCable]

Sure, not bad for stills.  It's when things move that stuff starts getting weird.

[raven]

Sure, not bad for stills.  It's when things move that stuff starts getting weird.

True that, though fast enough movement could also do weird to the sequential colour camera that was used as well.

[dwight]

And there, raven, is the very reason why I started researching "Live TV From the Moon" and "Live TV From Orbit": I could not get my head around how they got color from the lunar surface, and why the images looked confetti-like during fast motion.

[raven]

And there, raven, is the very reason why I started researching "Live TV From the Moon" and "Live TV From Orbit": I could not get my head around how they got color from the lunar surface, and why the images looked confetti-like during fast motion.

As I said to a conspiracy theorist (Kartraceone) who complained that I had an answer to everything, "That's because there is an answer!"

[Noldi400]

Yes, every question has an answer. The problem with the CT's is that the answers aren't what, as Steve Shives said, in their "f***ing warped, dark, paranoid, broken psyche" think they are.

[dwight]

Imagine, if you will, the day a CT/HB listens to your explanation and calmly says, "Hey, you know that is an entirely plausible explanation which makes alot more sense than anything I've read from a consiparcy believer to date!"

[Echnaton]

Perhaps I am just cynical, but I imagine world peace will come first.

[dwight]

And with that note, an LP from 1959 called "How to Speak Hip" by Del Close and John Brent is worth picking up. Hilarious if you can dig it without becomming a juice-head, man!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Speak_Hip

[Echnaton]

Buying a record to learn to speak hip is just so square.