I bought it after reading The Guardian's excerpt with a lot of great pictures: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/26/apollo-space...
> Digital scans of the transparencies are often underexposed and difficult to process. The images shown here are derived from new, high-resolution scans of the original film, painstakingly restored using image-enhancement technology.
I think the "jabroni" was hired to make the best quality reproduction out of these films for NASA's own archive, my guess was he probably negotiated a deal where he'd be allowed to publish these photos.
I do wonder if public domain means they must be accessible online too?
Edit: on the Guardian excerpt, the photo credits include ASU, I found this site which talks about their work thawing the films and doing high-resolution, high bitrate (e.g. 14-bit grayscale) scans: http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/about, and this site also offers about 26000 scans of the films.
But the ASU scans are still not enhanced, e.g. the cover of the book, AS09-24-3665 from:
- Flickr, 2015 upload: https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/217878648...
- ASU scan: http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/Apollo/9/Hasselblad%205...
- Apollo Remastered (Andy Saunder's work) - but with the Guardian's JPEG compression: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/70f4b600092729ee3a719066227d7...
Wow I just noticed the download link on the ASU page, it offers a raw download of that single image which is about 1.3 GB...
