by contrarian1234 on 6/14/2023, 8:53:49 PM
by evolve2k on 6/14/2023, 8:38:33 PM
Ha fully expected to read more about the reddit saga.
by akiselev on 6/14/2023, 8:41:12 PM
I believe all of the new scans are available here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums
by hex4def6 on 6/14/2023, 9:20:44 PM
> Inspected, embossed and hand signed by the artist
Wow, they got the Apollo 15 crew to sign these? Awesome! There are some technical / logistical issues with that, but I'm sure they managed to overcome them...
Snark aside, I'm not really sure how running restoration on public domain photographs gives you authorship / copyright ownership over them.
by _caw on 6/14/2023, 9:17:01 PM
I highly recommend this book, which I received as a birthday present (hint, for your friends or loved ones who are into space stuff.)
Every page is filled with these georgeous, highly detailed pictures, and a running commentary from the astronauts or author.
You won't be disappointed.
by WirelessGigabit on 6/14/2023, 9:45:04 PM
> Inspected, embossed and hand signed by the artist
What? Since when is a film developer an artist?
If he would've taken the photos himself and then did the post-processing... fine. But not like this.
I'm reading this page: https://www.apolloremastered.com/shop/p/s65-30427 and it doesn't even mention the original photographer.
by jjcm on 6/14/2023, 8:36:06 PM
Is there a link to the high res photos?
by KleinDisk on 6/15/2023, 12:09:52 AM
Following the links throughout the thread, I've not seen a description of how the remastering process worked.
>The scans of this original flight film have been digitally remastered in a lossless format and then converted to laser / LED light
"Lossless encoding" is a red herring if you are looking for fidelity to ground truth, see:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22802909
amongst others
by clnq on 6/14/2023, 11:13:44 PM
What other historically or culturally significant coffee table books would you recommend?
by grout58 on 6/14/2023, 9:04:38 PM
That's not what I expected to see :)
Well it's a thinly veiled ad... and you can't really easily get digital copies - which somehow feels weird/wrong for space stuff. You typically can get that in full resolution directly from NASA.
Is the web interface representative of the final quality?
Just looking at an example: https://www.apolloremastered.com/shop/p/as15-82-11056-to-110...
Even mildly zoomed in the image looks quite crummy and blurry. Fine for a postcard, but not to hang on you wall
It's also a bit weird that some dude manages to somehow get semi-exclusive access to photos made by the US gov't and can then charge hundreds of pounds for them