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The Camera Man Explains: How did NASA fake it's images from the Apollo Moon Missions? A master explains...

Leonid Konovalov is an associate professor @ the Moscow School of Cinema and the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, VGIK, in Moscow. He is an expert in camera operation, cinematography, film projection, film negative developing, among many other related things. In this ongoing series of weekly articles, which he began in 2020, he explains how NASA really achieved it's impressive images from the Apollo Missions (and much more!). He analyzes the “lunar” photos and videos from the cameraman's point of view - how were they filmed? Each article has been machine translated from Russian to English, and saved in simplified view as a PDF. Some articles originally contained gifs and/or videos that will not play in this format. However, at the top of each article is a direct link to the original web page (in Russian) where those video files can be viewed. L. Konovalov's "Zen Yandex" page: https://zen.yandex.ru/id/5e4ac3dd5033cf582d873b74 He is still adding new articles as of Sept 2021. New articles will be archived here in due course.

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