(June 14, 2014 at 11:21 am)Stimbo Wrote:Ah, this one....(June 14, 2014 at 10:42 am)professor Wrote: The media was prevented from live feed at the control center and had to camera the fuzzy pictures off a projector. Why? Why were the pics fuzzy? The crew had a color camera on board, however, all pics supposedly on the moon were black and white.
I can't comment on this, other than to say if any of this is true there ought to be media articles about it. That plus check out the hi-res scans of the original Apollo photographs freely available (sorry, can't give the link right now. Can anyone help?)
The Apollo broadcast camera was limited to using the Apollo's radio transmitter as the signal, and hence was limited to a very low bandwidth. They had to go with 10fps @ 320x240, which had to be upscaled for TV broadcast with 30fps @ 525x394.
It seems the easiest and quickest way to do that at the time was to just broadcast off the live monitors.
