Hi Hans,
In an email late last night from John Sarkissian, he wrote :-
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Originally Posted by John Sarkissian
Yes, what he has is a video of the scan-converted Parkes footage, recorded at Houston. We have similar videos from the CBS archives.
We’ve known about these tapes for many years.
Thanks for letting know about the auction. I wasn’t aware that he was finally auctioning it.
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It is a tragedy that the original raw SSTV (10 frames-per-second, 320 lines)
data tapes were overwritten.
When you consider what the rest of us saw was scan-converted
by simply pointing a television camera pointing at a 10-inch
screen showing the SSTV image, how "lossy" that crude process is
is self-evident.
Here is a link to a copy of John's 2006 paper on "The Search for the
Apollo 11 SSTV Tapes: :-
https://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/new...pes_Search.pdf
Compare even the quality of Polaroid snapshots of the SSTV screen
compared to the scan-converted images!
Imagine with modern digital processing what might have been done
today with the raw SSTV data if it had not been lost!