Quote: (04-10-2019 07:06 PM)Aurini Wrote:
Quote: (04-10-2019 07:03 PM)911 Wrote:
Your eyes might need some adjustment time (a couple of minutes could do), but camera lenses pointed upwards wouldn't, because the moon has virtually no atmosphere.
You're thinking of modern cameras where software automatically adjusts the exposure level. If a camera's set to see the stars, it will be blinded by anything bathed in daylight.
I've had an 1980s AE-1 SLR, with an auto and a manual setting, so I am a bit familiar with the photography basics, all they'd have to do is reset the aperture and shutter speed on their Hasselblad. A stand would help, but without one, and with the proper aperture/shutter speed, and even with a high film ISO, you would at the very least capture fuzzy but bright stars by pointing the lens upwards, or perhaps taking pictures from the capsule through the window on the way there or back. If you've ever observed the night sky from a dry desert/high altitude, you have to imagine the night sky from the moon being even brighter than that.
Incidentally, one of the damning critiques from the perspective of skeptic professional photographers was that nearly all the Apollo pictures were perfect, the photo sequences produced under those conditions were highly unrealistic in that sense.
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