Apollo 16mm HDTV Transfers

Video courtesy NASA/courtesy of nasaimages.org

This program contains selected views taken from the Apollo 16mm onboards edited together and set to inspirational music. Footage from all Apollo missions, Apollo-Saturn 202 through Apollo 17, is used. Includes: stage separation; spacecraft rendezvous; various in-cabin crew scenes from spacecraft operations to leisure activities; Extravehicular Activity (EVA) views; transposition views; Earth rise over Moon horizon; lunar landscape; Lunar Module (LM) descent; scenes from various EVAs on the Lunar surface including planting the American flag; views of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV); and scenes taken during Command Module (CM) reentry including views of the main parachutes as CM makes final descent.

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Science & Technology

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• 16mm
• HDTV
• Transfers
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[dfhohj]

awesome!!

[digitalblasphemy1100]

it must be fake. this song came out waaaaay after the apollo missions!

[chillaxer1993]

i love you airboyd for uploading all the videos i like to watch

[Dremple]

32 min of Awesome!

[jaronee]

Boy this guy sure loves the bVI#4 chord.

[usaeagle1776]

kewl vid.

[BoardOfRandomosity]

@Glinkaism1

3 words for you sir, low light performance

[Glinkaism1]

16mm WILL be grainy. WILL lack detail. No way in the word is it comparable to HDTV, whatsoever. But if you want to delude yourself, go ahead.

[Polybun]

@Glinkaism1 actually 16mm has every bit as good of fidelity as HD digital. Granted that depends on the emulsion and the care that has been taken during exposure and replication. However, 15-20 million pixels per frame is common, and it's not a delta-t system, every frame is a complete frame, with digital it is not. fyi, 35mm is easily capable of 50million pixels per frame. The problem is, transfers are often not made frame by frame, they are "telecined" which gives rather poor results.

[Polybun]

@pogpog28 yes, it means they could not communicate directly with nasa, using the command module for a relay. This meant a drop in bandwidth, and the esiest way to make up bandwidth was to drop the frame rate. The technology used back then was not digital, it was analog, and any given antenna design can only cover so much bandwidth. The same can be said for the transmitter itself. And even if you could make the bandwidth wider on the transmit end, you then loose sensitivity on the receive end

[Polybun]

@pogpog28 yes, it means they could not communicate directly with nasa, using the command module for a relay. This meant a drop in bandwidth, and the esiest way to make up bandwidth was to drop the frame rate. The technology used back then was not digital, it was analog, and any given antenna design can only cover so much bandwidth. The same can be said for the transmitter itself. And even if you could make the bandwidth wider on the transmit end, you then loose sensitivity on the receive end

[predatortheme]

@badreality2 this is a special Onboard tv camera to make mission broadcasts .. they are wired to the spaceship with a cable