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To: Sontagged
The cam corder was not invented in 1972.

Which Apollo missions used videotape on the lunar surface?

Apollo 11 did not.

https://history.nasa.gov/apollo_photo.html

 - two 16mm Maurer motion picture film cameras
 - color television camera in the orbiting Columbia
 - black and white TV camera outside of the lunar module
 - Kodak stereo close-up camera
 - three Hasselblad 500EL cameras

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That said, the photos you posted are probably of black and white video cameras. Too small. The color tube(s) made the color video cameras larger.

The link that I gave you at #78 explains why the Apollo color camera did not need three imaging tubes.

Westinghouse Lunar Color Camera

165 posted on 12/11/2018 9:58:58 PM PST by greedo
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To: greedo

As I’ve noted, NASA says that video from the moon was fed to a Deep Space module, where the huge recording machine with 1” tape was rolling. On batteries.

The camera outside the Lunar Module was color.

Check the colored sparks or fireworks going off on Apollo 17’s comical “lift off” from the moon.

Color camera. Go-cart rover. Transmitting a live video feed.... on a camera that was normally made to plug into a power source, not battery operated.

Where were the refrigerator-sized batteries for all this equipment?

And again, as in the Apollo 17 footage, there was no way there was a remote controlled relay to earth in 1.5 seconds to get a zoom and tilt shot of the LM lift off... no way possible.

Oh and someone on this thread said that the lunar module was lost in this Apollo 17 footage... nope... someone zoomed out, tilted the camera up and stayed with the thing, whatever it was, as it then dropped back down to (earth).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpQ3AbHL2SM

Just no way this could have been successfully remote controlled from earth. The zoom and tilt are “live”


169 posted on 12/11/2018 10:57:07 PM PST by Sontagged ("The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork." -Psalm 19:1)
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