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They did that with the Apollo 17 LEM lift-off https://www.redsharknews.com/technology-computing/item/2742-how-nasa-captured-lunar-lift-off https://www.redshark

• xattt 7mo ago
  We can send a man to the moon, but we can’t have HD footage of the man going to the moon. /s but not really
  • _DeadFred_ 7mo ago
    We are a pretty quirky species when you think about it. This comment right here is kinda why I love humans so much.
• shemtay 7mo ago
  If I saw that in any other context I would have assumed it was a low budget special effect--mostly due the spray of rainbow sparkles when the module separates from the base.
  • fredoralive 7mo ago
    It's a sequential colour camera, each field is red, green or blue filtered (using a spinning colour wheel), and they're processed back on earth to recombine them into a colour TV picture. Doesn't work that well with fast motion, as there's too much movement between the red, green, and blue images, hence the rainbowing. They were of course bandwidth limited so conventional NTSC might be an issue. Also a normal colour TV camera at the time used three (or four) image tubes, rather than the one in the Apollo cameras, which would have added size and weight (this is before things like CCDs were practical).