29-06-2019, 07:41 AM
There's an interesting talk with Stan Lebar at the Early Television Foundation
in 2009,it's quite long and difficult to hear at times.The second half of the video has the most information relating to the camera.
https://youtu.be/Hjxi6r6TPr4
Stan worked for Westinghouse and they developed the TV camera used on the Apollo missions.
Video incoming from the moon was 320 lines,10 frames a second transmitted in a 500KHz bandwidth (all Nasa had available).
Conversion to 525/60 was done at the ground stations before being sent on to NASA and Stan mentions this is where a lot of the degradation happened.
The original incoming 320 line video
was recorded on tape but got lost,mislaid or even wiped.
Stan sadly passed away a few months after this recording.
in 2009,it's quite long and difficult to hear at times.The second half of the video has the most information relating to the camera.
https://youtu.be/Hjxi6r6TPr4
Stan worked for Westinghouse and they developed the TV camera used on the Apollo missions.
Video incoming from the moon was 320 lines,10 frames a second transmitted in a 500KHz bandwidth (all Nasa had available).
Conversion to 525/60 was done at the ground stations before being sent on to NASA and Stan mentions this is where a lot of the degradation happened.
The original incoming 320 line video
was recorded on tape but got lost,mislaid or even wiped.
Stan sadly passed away a few months after this recording.
