History Restored

I’ve always had a fascination with space, particularly with the Apollo missions. Despite the advances in technology since those early lunar missions, in my lifetime no one has been back to the moon. Most of my understanding of the Apollo missions comes from movies such as First Man or Apollo 13.

One of the best Apollo films I’ve seen though is a documentary called Apollo 11, directed by Todd Douglas Miller. Despite using the original film footage from that mission, this film when viewed in 4K Ultra HD simply looks (and sounds) stunning. It blows me away every time I watch it. The clarity of the footage must be seen to be believed.

In Apollo Remastered, Andy Saunders has taken the latest high-resolution scans of the original film stocks and painstakingly remastered them to create the highest quality Apollo photographs ever produced. Like the documentary footage from Apollo 11, it looks like some of these photographs were captured just a few years ago.

But Apollo Remastered is more than just a collection of photographs. It has pages of text which describe all the missions, from Mercury, Gemini, and all the way to the final lunar mission, Apollo 17. It also tells you about the importance photography had for Apollo, the equipment used, and how Andy used the latest techniques to restore these wonderful, and historically important photographs.

In this episode of On My Bookshelf I look at Apollo Remastered to see if this is now the definitive record of the Apollo missions.

✔️ You can purchase of a copy of Apollo Remastered by Andy Saunders here - https://amzn.to/3xR940D

✔️ You can purchase of a copy of Apollo 11 on 4k Ultra HD/Blu-Ray/DVD here - https://amzn.to/3KF6KRL

🎥 Apollo Remastered - An interview with Andy Saunders by Mc2 Photography - https://youtu.be/HgYSdOi4u5A