What I meant was that it wasn't some super exotic photographic film, printed on an unobtanium base. It was standard acetate film with a gelatin emulsion. Asid

What I meant was that it wasn't some super exotic photographic film, printed on an unobtanium base. It was standard acetate film with a gelatin emulsion. Aside from the special Ektachrome, they also took black and white film magazines with them. The colour slide magazines held 160 exposures and the black and white magazines held 200 exposures. I believe the reason they used slide film was that the quality of colour negative film wasn't so good back in the 60's. A lot of the shots they took on the moon were bracketed for exposure, so they took 3 images of the same subject, but with different exposures. On the note of Apollo mission photography, there is an archive of a huge amount of photos taken on the Apollo missions on Flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums