Timeline for How did NASA get the video camera on the Moon to track the LM ascent stage, considering the substantial delay?
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| Jun 18, 2020 at 10:45 | comment | added | Oscar Bravo | There's a parallel to that in movie-making even today. Look for focus-puller in the credits. Large film cameras are usually not single lens reflex, so the camera operator can't actually see the image that is going on the film. They have a viewfinder to frame the shot, but no idea of how focused the image is. This is the job of the focus-puller; he physically measures - with a tape-measure - the distance from lens to subject, then focuses the lens accordingly. He does this blind, without looking at the image. | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 22:36 | vote | accept | uhoh | ||
| Jan 2, 2019 at 10:47 | comment | added | David Tonhofer | Ah the 70s. When people could chew gum and pan cameras without looking at the capture screen. Lost skills. | |
| Jan 1, 2019 at 17:57 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | Yeah, exactly. :-) | |
| Jan 1, 2019 at 17:53 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | @T.J.Crowder I imagine the technology would have been available (radar guided missile systems maturing through the '60s), but not the weight and power budget on the LRV for a radar system. | |
| Jan 1, 2019 at 17:26 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | Wow. And here I assumed automation via local radar. Overestimating early 1970s technology apparently... | |
| Jan 1, 2019 at 2:34 | history | edited | Russell Borogove | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 1, 2019 at 0:37 | history | answered | Russell Borogove | CC BY-SA 4.0 |