Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Apollo 11 bootprint.jpg

Apollo 11 footprint

 * Reason:Historical Significance, Irreplacability, Recognisability, Representative of Topic, High image quality.
 * Articles this image appears in:Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11
 * Creator:NASA


 * Support as nominator &mdash; Witty lama 04:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support TomStar81 (Talk) 05:07, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Despite easy reproducablity and low historic value. -Fcb981 06:14, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Are you serious? How is that easy to reproduce?  Jumping cheese   Cont @ct 08:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic. But then again, I suppose it would be easy enough to hire out the hollywood soundstage and re-recreate it :-P Witty lama 08:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Are you kidding? that was done on a sound stage in the first place :O --gren グレン 08:46, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I was indeed being sarcastic which I thought I made fairly clear. -Fcb981 14:18, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Omg jumping cheese, you never heard of sarcasm? btw Fcb981 that was a good 'un ;D -- Ch ild zy ( Talk 22:07, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, it's hard to tell if someone is being sarcastic or serious online compared to the real world. For all I know, fcb981 could have been dead serious (maybe I read the talk pages of the conspiracy pages way too much). There was no context clues that suggested that fcb981 was being sarcastic. A "yeah" or "totally" would have suffice. =)  Jumping cheese   Cont @ct 08:17, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Great! Debivort 07:59, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support The focus is off, but I can't complain!  Jumping cheese   Cont @ct 08:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment, I have two problems. Do we know that the + signs are part of the original photograph?  If they aren't we should try to find a version without them.  Also, I'm not fully sure this really represents either of the two articles so well.  I suppose an FP doesn't need to be the central image of its articles, but it helps. gren グレン 08:46, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Footprint.gif|thumb]]All lunar pic taken by the camera has + crosshairs (not sure why, positioning?). Currently, the pic on the right is used on the regolith page, which is especially representative of the page. I guess the original pic can be replaced with the FPC on the regolith page.  Jumping cheese   Cont @ct 10:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Explanation of the crosses: First, they are indeed in all space photos taken with Hasselblad cameras, specially modified with a glass pressure plate to keep the film flat (image area equiv. to 120 type film, but these cameras used 70 mm film, without backing paper). The crosses are on the glass for measurring purposes; first, their exact position is known, and any distortion in the lens can be corrected for. Second, they can correct for any shrinkage of the film itself. Just so you know... --Janke | Talk 14:21, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) and weak support.
 * Support per all -- Ch ild zy ( Talk 22:07, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Not exceptional focus, but…--HereToHelp 23:45, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support, due to historical value. Tito xd (?!? - cool stuff) 05:10, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Per above, "Houston, I took a picture of my footprint!" 8thstar 22:23, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. Not perfect quality, but you can't expect that from a picture taken by an astronaut on their first moon mission. Historic value alone is enough to feature. - Mgm|(talk) 10:56, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

--KFP (talk | contribs) 15:16, 18 April 2007 (UTC)