Topic: Project Apollo Archive: Raw 70mm scans on Flickr
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 09-23-2015 01:22 PM
Kipp Teague of the Project Apollo Archive has announced a Flickr account to support the archive and share the original scans of the Apollo Hasselblad photos.
Many years have passed since the creation of the Apollo Image Gallery and the joint presentation of Apollo imagery there and in Eric Jones' Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. Over the years I've received a number of requests for an improved presentation of the Gallery, and I've also received a number of questions about resolution and about image processing, including black level adjustments and more.
Today I've launched a new Flickr site for the hosting of unprocessed and original size (1800 dpi) scans which Johnson Space Center made available in the early 2000s. I have two full Hasselblad magazines in the gallery so far, and will continue to add scans on a regular basis until I have worked my way through all that I have available.
toddmp Member
Posts: 55 From: Registered: Jan 2014
posted 09-23-2015 01:31 PM
Amazing!
Jurg Bolli Member
Posts: 977 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Nov 2000
posted 09-23-2015 01:34 PM
This is very exciting.
NovaRob Member
Posts: 242 From: Tucson, Arizona, USA Registered: Nov 2008
posted 09-23-2015 03:57 PM
Excellent! Thanks for providing this.
Ian Limbrey Member
Posts: 124 From: England Registered: Nov 2012
posted 09-24-2015 02:23 PM
These photographs are absolutely amazing and wish I had seen them before!
moonguyron Member
Posts: 191 From: Trinity, FL USA Registered: Jan 2011
posted 10-02-2015 09:42 PM
Just was informed of an easy way to view all lunar surface photos taken on all missions during surface EVAs. They are arranged by mission and by the magazine used to record the images.
Go to The Project Apollo Archive. Click on the "Flickr" icon near the top of the page. (It's a small box with a blue and pink circle in it.) Quick and easy way to scroll through all lunar surface photos.
Editor's note: Threads merged.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 10-05-2015 03:50 PM
Sadly, there is wide amount of misinformation being spread by the media about the Project Apollo Archive's recently-added Flickr albums. I have yet to see an article get it entirely correct. For the record:
NASA didn't release these albums. As Kipp Teague clearly states, "this new Flickr gallery is not a NASA undertaking, but an independent one."
The numbers are all over the place: Teague gave the count at more than 8,400 images. Since then, I have seen articles state 9,000 and 10,000 and "tens of thousands."
This should almost be able to go unsaid, but these are not never-before-seen images. As Teague describes, this is a "re-presentation of the public domain NASA-provided Apollo mission imagery as it was originally provided in its raw, high-resolution and unprocessed form by the Johnson Space Center on DVD-R and including from the center's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth web site."
As just stated, these images are unprocessed: many, if not all, need to be color-corrected, straightened and cropped. For reference and comparison, the Project Apollo Archive has already done this as part of its main gallery, but in lower resolution than what is now available on Flickr.
BA002 Member
Posts: 175 From: Utrecht,NL Registered: Feb 2007
posted 10-07-2015 01:43 PM
My newspaper, fourth largest in Holland, got part of it right, except for the "some never published before" and "released in cooperation with NASA" part. Well, if that kind of headlines are what it takes to get two pages full of great Apollo pictures out to an audience to whom most of these pictures are probably indeed completely new, so be it. I was really pleasantly surprised this morning!
One Big Monkey Member
Posts: 169 From: West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2012
posted 10-07-2015 03:09 PM
I think part of the point, and a very important one, is that these are unprocessed images. Too many hoax idiots claim some sort of underhand manipulation of these photos simply because people have done some basic level adjustment or minor cosmetic work.
Thanks to these efforts (and it is now up to 12500+ images) we now heading towards a complete one stop shop for high quality Apollo images instead of flicking between the various repositories that currently hold galleries of varying quality and completeness.
I think the next stage is to add complete descriptions to the pictures - there are surely enough people who know the subject to do that in comments on each photograph.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
The addition of tens of thousands of the Apollo astronauts' moon photos to an online repository drew worldwide media interest this week, but lost in many of the headlines were the facts behind the four-decade-old photographs.
Numerous news articles declared the photos were "never before seen" and attributed the upload to NASA, neither of which were true. The images were described as "new" and "secret" and "restored," when, in fact, they are old, public and untouched.
hermit Member
Posts: 186 From: Scotland Registered: Jun 2009
posted 10-09-2015 03:30 AM
quote:Originally posted by One Big Monkey: Too many hoax idiots claim some sort of underhand manipulation of these photos...
In all likelihood the hoaxers will say that these scans have been released only now because it has taken all this time for NASA to make their doctored images appear unprocessed!
LM-12 Member
Posts: 3207 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 10-12-2015 10:30 AM
Are these unprocessed images available somewhere better than flickr?
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 10-12-2015 10:57 AM
The Project Apollo Archive chose Flickr to host the images to provide a better gallery experience. The site is their only online source.
One Big Monkey Member
Posts: 169 From: West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2012
posted 10-12-2015 11:28 AM
Actually a substantial chunk of the images are from the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. They've been there for many years, but they are a pain to search for.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 10-12-2015 11:52 AM
Good point, which Kipp Teague acknowledges — in fact, some of the images in the Flickr gallery were obtained through the Gateway.
LM-12 Member
Posts: 3207 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 10-12-2015 12:19 PM
quote:Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: The Project Apollo Archive chose Flickr
I would have chosen the Lunar and Planetary Institute's Apollo Image Atlas.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 10-13-2015 09:56 AM
In addition to the stop motion video shared in our article linked above, others are interpreting the images in new ways. The latest example is Tom Kucy's GROUND CONTROL:
GROUND CONTROL is a small personal project, bringing NASA's Apollo Archive photos to life. With the intention of bring more missions life, stay tuned for more.
posted 09-23-2015 01:22 PM
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