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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3253693" data-attributes="member: 26737">Yep, it was ol&#039; Neil. He had the still camera, so the only pictures you see of him on the moon are either captures from the movie cameras or reflections of him in Buzz&#039;s visor.Somewhere I have a book called Full Moon (I think) that&#039;s full of Apollo photographs. When they got the film back, they processed the film and made duplicates of the negatives, then put the originals permanently in cold storage (where they remain to this day). That first set of duplicates was used to make further copies of the negatives, then they were put in cold storage; so all the photos you&#039;ve seen of the Apollo missions (prior to this book) were at least third generation copies. For this book, NASA went back to those&nbsp; first-generation duplicates and commissioned a new set of negatives, which were then used to generate the imagery for this book. It&#039;s a pretty cool story, and some way cool photography.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 3253693, member: 26737"] Yep, it was ol' Neil. He had the still camera, so the only pictures you see of him on the moon are either captures from the movie cameras or reflections of him in Buzz's visor. Somewhere I have a book called Full Moon (I think) that's full of Apollo photographs. When they got the film back, they processed the film and made duplicates of the negatives, then put the originals permanently in cold storage (where they remain to this day). That first set of duplicates was used to make further copies of the negatives, then they were put in cold storage; so all the photos you've seen of the Apollo missions (prior to this book) were at least third generation copies. For this book, NASA went back to those first-generation duplicates and commissioned a new set of negatives, which were then used to generate the imagery for this book. It's a pretty cool story, and some way cool photography. [/QUOTE]

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