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Better source, including links to the Apollo images
The source of the blurb posted by Watchman above about the release of hi-res photos of the Apollo missions is missing any links to the photos themselves. It wasn't hard to track down some better sources which can take you to the photos themselves. (I will put some examples in a separate post).
One giant glimpse into the Apollo missions: Nasa releases almost 10,000 stunning never-before-seen images to Flickr
Hi-res photographs let people revisit iconic images in extra detail and more unusual shots taken by astronauts
Include images from the first lunar landings and troubled Apollo 13, as well as beautiful images of the Earth
Many of the photographs, including shots of experiments and on-board craft, were taken using Hasselblad cameras
They have been uploaded to Flickr by a team of enthusiasts as part of a project that's been running for 15 years
More than 8,400 photographs from Nasa’s moon missions have been uploaded to Flickr in high resolution, and offer a fresh look at the lunar landings -- including Buzz Aldrin’s less than graceful descent onto the moon’s surface.
More familiar images from various missions show famous footprints and magical views of Earth, while others offer a more surprising glimpse of the lunar landscape, with astronauts collecting samples from boulders larger than themselves and travelling across the satellite's bleak hilly terrain.
Over the course of the Apollo missions, 12 astronauts walked on the moon and as well as conducting experiments, took some incredible photographs using specially-adapted Hasselblad cameras.
The originals are preserved and enthusiasts have made digital copies in high resolution of 1,800dpi, to allow us to see lunar details as never before.
"Around 2004, Johnson Space Center began re-scanning the original Apollo Hasseelblad camera film magazines, and Eric Jones and I began obtaining TIFF (uncompressed, high-resolution) versions of these new scans on DVD," he said. "These images were processed for inclusion on our websites, including adjusting color and brightness levels, and reducing the images in size to about 1000 dpi (dots per inch) for the high-resolution versions."
Teague said that over the years, he has received numerous questions about the images, which prompted him to reprocess the archive in unedited, higher resolution. The new images are 1800 dots per inch.
Unlike the images included in the Project Apollo Archive and the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, the new Flickr set has not been processed. Washed-out Earth limbs and blurry astronaut faces sit side-by-side stunning lunar vistas and iconic moonwalking photos. Browsing the entire set takes on the feeling of looking through an old family photo album.
Anyone who works seriously with images knows that you always want to start with unprocessed raw image data. You will be wanting to do your own image processing (i.e. adjustments) according to whatever your own specific final purpose is. So the fact that these images are unprocessed is an important one and adds value even though a first perusal might seem less than perfect.