Apollo CSM lunar photos and artifacts

[inconceivable]

Did the Apollo Service Module cameras have the resolution to pick up the artifacts left by the astronauts? The area Sector 1 of the service module had panaramic cameras, mapping cameras along with other instrumentations. I've read that the CSMs oribited the moon at around 60 n miles. Ron Evans did a space walk to retrieve film canisters from the service module. Can somebody direct me to any Apollo CSM photos of the surface of the moon? Thanks in advance.

[gwiz]

Here's a handy page with all the landing sites. Only the three final sits were imaged with the Simbay cameras. The LMs show up as bright dots with long shadows.

www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/apollolanding/ApolloLanding/apollolanding_index.shtml

For all the pan and mapping photos, try the links from this page:
www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/

There are now very high-res mapping camera pictures on-line, but I can't recall where.

[tofu]

I think this page has exactly what you're looking for:

stupendous.rit.edu/richmond/answers/lunar_lander.html

[Czero 101]

inconceivable said:

Did the Apollo Service Module cameras have the resolution to pick up the artifacts left by the astronauts? The area Sector 1 of the service module had panaramic cameras, mapping cameras along with other instrumentations.

From the Lunar and Planetary Institute Apollo 15 Mission Photography page:

The 610-millimeter (24-inch) ITEK panoramic camera obtained high-resolution panoramic photographs, in both stereoscopic and monoscopic modes, of the lunar surface during the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions. The camera provided 1- to 2-meter-resolution photography from an orbital altitude of 111 kilometers (60 nautical miles).

Pages from the Apollo Flight Journal:

Information on the Itek Panoramic Camera

Each photographic frame recorded an area 211 miles wide by 13.5 miles long with such fine detail that an object smaller than 6 feet (2m) in size can be examined and its position pinpointed.

Information on the Fairchild Lunar Mapping Camera

[Grand Lunar]

Am I correct in assuming that only the J-missions carried such cameras?

[Bob B.]

grandlunar1980 said:

Am I correct in assuming that only the J-missions carried such cameras?

Yes