[meteorite-list] OFF-TOPIC - Fake Lunar Landing Response

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:23:49 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <37152.20331.qm_at_web113619.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

--- On Sat, 4/24/10, power ofunity <energylightandlove at yahoo.com> wrote:


> I am a professional photographer, ...
>
> Where are the stars?


I usually don't waste one minute of my time on this mindless drivel, because those who are convinced that all the evidence is wrong or faked, but on this one topic, a so called professional photographer would know instantly that this issue, if nothing else was a canard.

You don't need to be a professional to know that if you make an exposure with any camera with the rule of thumb settings for direct sunlight, ie. ISO 100, f/16, 1/100th second, NO stars will be recorded. Why? Because they are too faint to be recorded.

The exposures made on the lunar surface were in daylight. The cameras were set for direct sunlight exposures. The reason the sky is black is because there is no atmosphere, not because it was night.

Stars in the sky WOULD BE evidence that the images were faked, not the other way around.

A professional photographer needs to understand and be an expert in their own field. Any photographer that doesn't know this extremely basic fundamental of photograph certainly is no expert, and most likely not even a photographer. If you can't understand the fundamentals in a field you claim an expert level of understanding, how can you possible understand something of far more complexity like global politics, celestial mechanics, or manned spaceflight?

Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography


      
Received on Sat 24 Apr 2010 01:23:49 PM PDT