Randy J Tomlinson Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 hi all, I'm just watching a Video about the Apollo 8 Mission and they mention that these Astronauts had several Live Broadcasts from Aboard the Capsule https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp_RDqPQ-qg I wonder what kind of Camera System they had? Obviously Analog but how did that work back in 1968? Did they have Cameras making 18 or 24 Pictures a second and these images where somehow send by Radiosignal? Or did they had already some kind of a "Sensor" like our Digital Cameras? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KH Martin Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Domestic video was an unvarying 30fps, so I always figured that is what we were seeing, though as I recall there was a lot of jitter like frames were missing. And they were certainly as fallible as any other camera - on Apollo 12, they had a color camera, but one of the guys accidentally pointed it at the sign and destroyed its ability to create viewable images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon O'Brien Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 On Apollo 11 I think Buzz Aldrin filmed Neil Armstrong walking on the moon from within the LM with 16mm too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Kovats Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 The custom Mauer 16mm data aquisition camera was beyond awesome. What a beauty, eg https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/camera-data-acquisition-command-module-16mm-apollo-11 https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap16fj/02photoequip.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Kovats Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 The Apollo 11 lunar video camera, ie https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/WEC-Engineer-3-1968.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon O'Brien Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 The film/digital thing, even on the surface of the moon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy J Tomlinson Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 The Apollo 11 lunar video camera, ie https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/WEC-Engineer-3-1968.pdf Thats all i wanted to know. The Image was put onto a "Tube". Obviously. I look like stupid now. I should have known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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