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I was 6 and headed into 1st Grade in a month and a half.

You can either set up a shot to photograph stars, or you can set it up to photograph people walking around in a lighted environment.

The light presented by stars is so faint that it requires extremely long exposure time coupled with wide aperture. Any lighted subjects in the frame would be washed out to pure whiteness. Can't defeat physics.

I am curious what kind of camera they used in 1969 to produce digitized motion pictures to beam back to Earth?

I was at my folks place watching it.

Rich check out this link. It answers some questions. It occurs to me that the images were probably not digital, but transmitted in analog. Just as TV was at that time.

https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/moon-to-living-room-apollo-11-broadcast

No doubt. High frequency = Low power and Low frequency = High power.

I caught it on the TV when I got home that night from a date with my GF...
earlier in the evening we were both loosing our virginity on a blanket next to my 66 VW Fastback...

I remember the latter, more than the former.... I was 17 in June of 69.

On the couch in the den with the rest of my family watching the landing on TV.

See?? 10:56 PM, New York time. My memory was correct. For a little kid, that was very late.

The pictures showed what the astronauts saw, as well, and for the same reason. The purpose of the official photographs wasn't to adjust the lens and light so as to capture an image of the stars.

Here we go

https://www.aulis.com/apollo11saturn_v2.htm

And

https://www.aulis.com/apollo11saturn_v.htm

was 6 yrs old and we didn't have a TV... older brother was 22 and on his own... he scored a set somewhere and woke me up to watch it... he still asks me if i remember that every so often...

I was 10, I don't remember.

I’m assuming a crib. I was 5 months old.

I thought that I had already responded to this, but I guess not. I was on my way from QuiNhon Vietnamn to Cam Rahn Bay, starting my trip back to the states. miles

I have a slight memory of the event. I was pretty young at 6 years old. Dad made popcorn and mom served it in some kind of baskets with paper napkins in them. I never really understood why she just didn't use bowls. But popcorn was always served in those things. I’m certain we either had milk or that orange juice concentrate she kept in the freezer.

I would have been on the floor as the few pieces of furniture we had in the family room was for adults. My recollection of it was that it was pretty late at night for me as my bedtime 8:30 regardless of whether it still light out or night. She was dang tired of all my shenanigans by that time and she needed a break by then. But, after all it was a historic event and mom didn't want me to miss it.

We lived in rural ohio and the closest TV station was Toledo we could manage to get with the clothes hanger antenna on the back of the tv set.
Every station was kind of grainy until Dad built the outside tower with the moveable antenna mounted on top. Man we was high fidelity after that. But that was after the moon landing. So between our crappy reception and the poor quality of the nasa film it was not a great optical experience.

Dad seemed more excited we had beat the communists to the moon than in the scientific and technological accomplishment.
Thats what I recall.

Also16 years old, and putting up hay.
Saw it later, on the news.

In the Navy, stationed on a Destroyer,, deployed to the Med---(just looked it up)

I was eight years old, watching it in the living room with my dad. We did that a lot with the Apollo program. :-) brings back some great memories.

I was 19, in the Army and 5 months into my tour in VN.

At my Grandparents house watching it all on their Zenith console T.V. I remember going out to the backyard and looking up at the moon and thinking men are walking around up there .