Post by Jason Thompson on Jan 15, 2006 17:49:33 GMT -4
Just as a matter of interest, I checked out the CD ROM that comes with the NASA Mission Reports volume 1 of Apollo 11 and had a look at the colour photos.
In contrast to the HB claim that the pictures are all perfect, I found 32 pictures that were undeniably 'bad' images from any photographic standpoint. Several were blurred, several had the intended subject just out of frame, and several were obviously accidental exposures. One of them is a perfectly focused shot of one of the LM landing struts, but the whole image is tilted at 45 degrees to the frame of the picture, so surely was not intentionally taken!
Of the other few hundred so many were just of the lunar landscape in such a way it would have been impossible to make a bad picture anyway: literally the camera was just pointed and shot. If there's no obvious intended subject apart from the landscape as a whole it's hard to screw them up.
So, that's 32 bad pictures from just the colour magazines of one mission. Proof of lack of research if ever I saw it. The whole exercise took me ten minutes!
In contrast to the HB claim that the pictures are all perfect, I found 32 pictures that were undeniably 'bad' images from any photographic standpoint. Several were blurred, several had the intended subject just out of frame, and several were obviously accidental exposures. One of them is a perfectly focused shot of one of the LM landing struts, but the whole image is tilted at 45 degrees to the frame of the picture, so surely was not intentionally taken!
Of the other few hundred so many were just of the lunar landscape in such a way it would have been impossible to make a bad picture anyway: literally the camera was just pointed and shot. If there's no obvious intended subject apart from the landscape as a whole it's hard to screw them up.
So, that's 32 bad pictures from just the colour magazines of one mission. Proof of lack of research if ever I saw it. The whole exercise took me ten minutes!
