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the item to be photographed was clear and sharp. If any of these settings were incorrectly chosen, the
photograph would suffer degradation and likely end up unusable.

Minolta SR-T

Imagine attempting to take photographs using a camera like this while you were blindfolded and
wearing bulky, non-tactile gloves over both hands. This is essentially the challenge presented to the
astronauts of the Apollo missions. The cameras used in the Apollo missions were hard mounted to
the chest area of the astronaut’s spacesuit. The camera did not swivel. It had to be aimed by the
astronaut turning his body. Additionally, the cameras had no view finders, so the astronaut could
only guess where the camera was pointed. It would have been useless for the camera to have a
viewfinder for, due to the restrictions of the spacesuit, the astronaut could see only a small portion
of the camera mounted to his chest.

Apollo 11 Astronaut with Camera

These liabilities have led numerous people to question how the astronauts could have captured some
of the iconic images on the surface of the Moon which have become so popular. These images
appear to be expertly composed with the subject perfectly framed, everything sharply in focus and
the exposure settings adjusted precisely for the lighting conditions on the Moon. Since no one had
ever set foot on the Moon before, and the lighting conditions on the Moon were unknown, such
precision is hard to explain.