Noticed something odd with the moon landing footage timing

I was looking at old NASA archives from the Apollo 11 mission and kept finding that the shadow angles in the photos don't match the time stamps on the film rolls. Over like a 2 hour window, the shadows barely moved at all. Anyone else ever try to line up those details with the supposed sun position?

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seanlee4d agoTop Commenter

Honestly, are you really that worried about shadow angles in some old photos? I get that it looks odd at first glance, but there are tons of reasons shadows can seem off in wide angle shots or different terrain. The sun is huge and far away, so even a small tilt of the camera or the ground can mess with what you think you're seeing. Plus those time stamps from 1969 might not be perfectly synced with every single frame anyway. Ngl, this feels like overthinking a small detail that's probably just a photography quirk.

williams.kim1d ago

1969 time stamps were hand written, not synced, wide angle lenses make shadows look flat at the edges.

wesley_martin4d ago

Oh man, that reminds me, I was trying to explain to my buddy why my phone's compass was going haywire at a construction site the other day. Like the sun was right overhead but the shadows on the gravel were pointing every which way, it was messing with my head. I mean, maybe it's just me but stuff like that happens more often than people think.