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Apollo Remastered

by bentaber on 6/14/23, 8:32 PM with 41 comments

• by contrarian1234 on 6/14/23, 8:53 PM

  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

• by evolve2k on 6/14/23, 8:38 PM

  Ha fully expected to read more about the reddit saga.

• by akiselev on 6/14/23, 8:41 PM

  I believe all of the new scans are available here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums

• by hex4def6 on 6/14/23, 9:20 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 6/14/23, 9:17 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 6/14/23, 9:45 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 6/14/23, 8:36 PM

  Is there a link to the high res photos?

• by KleinDisk on 6/15/23, 12:09 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 6/14/23, 11:13 PM

  What other historically or culturally significant coffee table books would you recommend?

• by grout58 on 6/14/23, 9:04 PM

  That's not what I expected to see :)