Hasselblad & the Moon Landing

Great photos. Great source of technical information.

Great gift for a father, he loved it!

Great book on a subject I truly enjoy 👍

Husband actually purchased this book which inspired him to purchase one of the few "moon Hasselblads" ever produced. I can say -- unequivocally -- that he loved the book and is waiting for the camera to arrive.

We have all seen the Apollo 8 Earthrise picture and the Apollo 11 men on the moon, where did these pictures come from in zero gravity and heavy spacesuit gloved hands? Great story of the Hasselblad camera - and the need to leave them behind.

As a youngster when the Eagle landed, I remember being absolutely awestruck by the Moonwalk photos published in Life magazine and National Geographic. They were so rich, so crisp and a bunch of other terms I couldn’t articulate.Now I know why. The Hasselblad medium format camera!What I got from this book was a lot of Apollo 11 mission details including there were 3 Hasselblad cameras on the mission and 2 of them stayed on the lunar surface (to lighten the load) and why all the amazing still Moonwalk pics had those funny crosshairs on them and some other cool stuff I won’t spoil it for ya by telling.What I didn’t get was what challenges of physics (if any) they had to overcome to shoot pics in zero or 1/6 g or in the different light in the vacuum of space outside the atmosphere of earth.

Gorgeous photos and equally valuable commentary.

For such a narrow scope, I expected a deep dive into minute details about the Reseau plates, NASA and Kodak developing thin based 70mm film to get more in a magazine, as well as what lubricants were used that would not boil away in the vacuum of space, as well as other esoteric things about the cameras.To be fair they do mention all of the above as topics, but do not really go into depth at all. It’s light reading for someone casually familiar with moon missions and mildly curious about the cameras used but that’s about it.