Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> clipka wrote:
> > Sounds like a legend to me.
>
> It was the second hit on google, even given the current flurry of posts
> about it.
>
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5578853

"To convert the originals, engineers essentially took a commercial television
camera and aimed it at the monitor."

The keyword here is "essentially".

It doesn't describe what they actually did - just the basic principle of how it
worked.

And later, it continues:

"Richard Nafzger, a TV specialist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in
Maryland [...] worked with Apollo's lunar TV program, and says that conversion
was the best they could do at the time."

Which is to say they definitely did not just aim *some* camera at *some* monitor
*somewhere* - because they could have done better than *that*. Mounting both
camera and monitor firmly into a dark enclosure, placed somewhere undisturbed
by casual passers-by, for instance.

The articles also confirms that conversion took place at the downlinks, not at
NASA's control center in Houston.

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