{"id":1647,"date":"2009-07-22T15:30:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T05:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2009-07-22T15:30:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T05:30:40","slug":"photography-during-apollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/22\/photography-during-apollo\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography During Apollo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what sort of cameras where used in the Apollo missions to the moon? <\/p>\n<p><em>A comprehensive set of camera equipment was carried on board Apollo 11. This included two 16mm Maurer motion picture film cameras, a color television camera in the orbiting Columbia, and a black and white TV camera outside of the lunar module to transmit to Earth Neil Armstrong&#8217;s first steps on the Moon&#8217;s surface. A Kodak stereo close-up camera was used to film the lunar soil from only inches away. Three Hasselblad 500EL cameras were carried.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a more detailed explanation of the challenges faced and equipment used, see the link below. More excellent examples can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolloarchive.com\/apollo_gallery.html\" target=\"blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hq.nasa.gov\/office\/pao\/History\/alsj\/a11\/AS11-38-5728.jpg\" alt=\"The Earth\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">A beautiful B&amp;W photo from the Apollo 11 mission.<\/h5>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/apollo_photo.html\" target=\"blank\">Photography During Apollo<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to Mick Orlosky for the information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what sort of cameras where used in the Apollo missions to the moon? A comprehensive set of camera equipment was carried on board Apollo 11. This included two 16mm Maurer motion picture film cameras, a color television camera in the orbiting Columbia, and a black and white TV camera outside of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[85,188,456,624,709],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-web-sites","tag-apollo","tag-cameras","tag-hasselblad","tag-lunar-photography","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqIRT-qz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}