I’d challenge anyone skilled at manual photography to cover up their viewfinder and frame 25 out of 100 shots of their car in their own driveway from 10’ to 30’ away, whilst manually exposing using a chest mount.
True, it is difficult. Now, practice it for 2 years straight, and then try again - I bet you'll do a fine job. Unless of course, you're a tard, or unwilling to succeed
Watch some of the film footage when they were taking some of the photos - no way it happened that way - bouncy - bouncy - smile - snap. Trust your eyes 😀.
As someone who spent the 1970s shooting wedding photography, I can tell you that operating a camera with a light meter in manual mode is not that difficult. Even without looking through a viewfinder. I learned on a Rolleiflex and while it had a viewfinder, it wasn't the same light path as what entered the aperture. You had to use a light meter or just be good at estimating your shutter speeds (comes with experience) to get a good exposure
Take a real good look at the video footage again, the parts when they are taking the photos, give it a bit of a critical eye from a photographers’ perspective - just might hit you like a ton o bricks - or maybe not.
Do you have a particular clip or photo you'd like me to examine? Send me some index numbers and I'd be happy to take a look. I've looked at a lot of them, but there's something like tens of thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of photo and video frames from Apollo
I can't tell you if we went to the moon or not in the 60's. But I know that the Apollo program could have done it. And I know there's a lot of claims out there about the photography, but I still haven't seen anything that's a dealbreaker, except maybe the two mountains (appear exactly the same) that were taken on two different missions, thousands of clicks apart. I'll look that up again and link it here if I can find it. Haven't looked at that one in a while.
True, it is difficult. Now, practice it for 2 years straight, and then try again - I bet you'll do a fine job. Unless of course, you're a tard, or unwilling to succeed
Watch some of the film footage when they were taking some of the photos - no way it happened that way - bouncy - bouncy - smile - snap. Trust your eyes 😀.
As someone who spent the 1970s shooting wedding photography, I can tell you that operating a camera with a light meter in manual mode is not that difficult. Even without looking through a viewfinder. I learned on a Rolleiflex and while it had a viewfinder, it wasn't the same light path as what entered the aperture. You had to use a light meter or just be good at estimating your shutter speeds (comes with experience) to get a good exposure
Take a real good look at the video footage again, the parts when they are taking the photos, give it a bit of a critical eye from a photographers’ perspective - just might hit you like a ton o bricks - or maybe not.
Do you have a particular clip or photo you'd like me to examine? Send me some index numbers and I'd be happy to take a look. I've looked at a lot of them, but there's something like tens of thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of photo and video frames from Apollo
I can't tell you if we went to the moon or not in the 60's. But I know that the Apollo program could have done it. And I know there's a lot of claims out there about the photography, but I still haven't seen anything that's a dealbreaker, except maybe the two mountains (appear exactly the same) that were taken on two different missions, thousands of clicks apart. I'll look that up again and link it here if I can find it. Haven't looked at that one in a while.