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Apollo Remastered

88 pointsby bentaberalmost 2 years ago

10 comments

contrarian1234almost 2 years ago
Well it&#x27;s a thinly veiled ad... and you can&#x27;t really easily get digital copies - which somehow feels weird&#x2F;wrong for space stuff. You typically can get that in full resolution directly from NASA.<p>Is the web interface representative of the final quality?<p>Just looking at an example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apolloremastered.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;p&#x2F;as15-82-11056-to-11057" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apolloremastered.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;p&#x2F;as15-82-11056-to-110...</a><p>Even mildly zoomed in the image looks quite crummy and blurry. Fine for a postcard, but not to hang on you wall<p>It&#x27;s also a bit weird that some dude manages to somehow get semi-exclusive access to photos made by the US gov&#x27;t and can then charge hundreds of pounds for them
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evolve2kalmost 2 years ago
Ha fully expected to read more about the reddit saga.
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akiselevalmost 2 years ago
I believe all of the new scans are available here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;projectapolloarchive&#x2F;albums" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;projectapolloarchive&#x2F;albums</a>
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hex4def6almost 2 years ago
&gt; Inspected, embossed and hand signed by the artist<p>Wow, they got the Apollo 15 crew to sign these? Awesome! There are some technical &#x2F; logistical issues with that, but I&#x27;m sure they managed to overcome them...<p>Snark aside, I&#x27;m not really sure how running restoration on public domain photographs gives you authorship &#x2F; copyright ownership over them.
_cawalmost 2 years ago
I highly recommend this book, which I received as a birthday present (hint, for your friends or loved ones who are into space stuff.)<p>Every page is filled with these georgeous, highly detailed pictures, and a running commentary from the astronauts or author.<p>You won&#x27;t be disappointed.
WirelessGigabitalmost 2 years ago
&gt; Inspected, embossed and hand signed by the artist<p>What? Since when is a film developer an artist?<p>If he would&#x27;ve taken the photos himself and then did the post-processing... fine. But not like this.<p>I&#x27;m reading this page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apolloremastered.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;p&#x2F;s65-30427" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apolloremastered.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;p&#x2F;s65-30427</a> and it doesn&#x27;t even mention the original photographer.
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jjcmalmost 2 years ago
Is there a link to the high res photos?
KleinDiskalmost 2 years ago
Following the links throughout the thread, I&#x27;ve not seen a description of how the remastering process worked.<p>&gt;The scans of this original flight film have been digitally remastered in a lossless format and then converted to laser &#x2F; LED light<p>&quot;Lossless encoding&quot; is a red herring if you are looking for fidelity to ground truth, see:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22802909">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22802909</a><p>amongst others
clnqalmost 2 years ago
What other historically or culturally significant coffee table books would you recommend?
grout58almost 2 years ago
That&#x27;s not what I expected to see :)