Are The Photos Too Good?

Were all the photographs taken by the astronauts just too good?  They were being taken by amateur photographers in difficult conditions, yet they all appear almost perfect!

The astronauts received a great deal of training before they left Earth, part of this was in the operation of the cameras, which were specially designed  by Hasselblad's to be used by the astronauts with their suits on.

The Apollo astronauts took around 17,000 photographs on the lunar surface.  There's plenty of not-so-great photographs that NASA simply have never publicised.  Over or under exposed,  quint angles, accidental exposures.   But those that the public are most familiar with are the best ones.

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