as a former film digitization expert, I have always wanted to scan this film. the images are stunning and the film stocks were custom made for the Apollo 8 through 17 missions, mostly Kodak colour slide film but some B&W as well.

according to chat they were scanned with an old CCD/CMOS scanning station made by Leica called the DSW700V. this points to either a 29MP CCD or 50MP CMOS sensor, both of which were great for the time and lackluster by today's digital sensor standards. also inferior to the tonality and realism of a drum scan.

the images are so haunting and beautiful though, they deserve better.

I remain pretty convinced that Apollo program Hasselblad photography remains a civilizational high water mark re: vibes / accidental art. And the lesser known ones are in some ways greater. https://t.co/XXkTaqifRL

Grant Tremblay

as a former film digitization expert, I have always wanted to scan this film. the images are stunning and the film stocks were custom made for the Apollo 8 through 17 missions, mostly Kodak colour slide film but some B&W as well.

according to chat they were scanned with an old CCD/CMOS scanning station made by Leica called the DSW700V. this points to either a 29MP CCD or 50MP CMOS sensor, both of which were great for the time and lackluster by today's digital sensor standards. also inferior to the tonality and realism of a drum scan.

the images are so haunting and beautiful though, they deserve better.

https://x.com/astrogrant/status/1921385581612777669

reply guys

my immediate take: NASA would get even more fake min landing conspiracy theorists coming out of the woodwork if the photos they shared didn't look old

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thoughts? 

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haha, interesting point. agreed, I think this makes perfect sense to a mainstream observer. to those who are more familiar with colour film, they would be less likely to follow that line of thinking since most work shot on colour film between the 70s-00s looks very "modern" by today's standards if properly digitized.

e.g. we can look to stephen shore's work from the 70s-90s or pretty much any big budget movie from the 80s onwards and often it will look cleaner than many contemporary counterparts. there's a variety of reasons for that but the idea that film looks dated is really quite misleading.

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