Apollo archiving project

[CropDusterMan]

I once had a good conversation with Jim Lovell, who commanded Apollo 13, and was CMP on Apollo 8. He and his son
have a wonderful restaurant in Lake Forest, IL...we talked about the Lunar photography...he had told me they were trained
to basically use their bodies as human "tripods" (bipods) and that all of the film was Kodak negative film. He also mentioned that
the exposures were hit or miss often, due to the high contrast of the light and shadow...and that many of the exposures were
off a bit. There is a company in LA in the Valley called Global Effects....they made all of the very realistic spacesuits for Apollo 13
and the Clint Eastwood shuttle film...they have several Hasselblads which are direct copies of the ones used on Apollo-250 exposure
backs, the whole deal. Cool stuff.

 

[Nodda Duma]

Stunning stuff, although we all know Kubrick faked the moon landing and these photos are all fake too....

Kidding, just kidding.

One of the NASA photo manuals from about 1984. There's some really good advice there:

https://ia601403.us.archive.org/11/items/pdfy-CrPzRQE7YadZxwnF/astronauts_manual_singlepage_lr.pdf

Very cool, thanks for the link.

I did get a chuckle out of the illustrations of ungloved hands using the camera controls.

 

[CropDusterMan]

I was trying to find an emoticon for pulling ones leg, but they don't have legs.

Now that was funny!