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109:26:54 Armstrong: Okay, Buzz, we ready to bring down the (70 mm Hasselblad) camera?
[The camera is in the ETB which, in turn, is hooked to the LEC. Both Neil and Buzz have a checklist sewn to the upper part of the left glove that covered the wrist area. Neil's is shown in NASA photo S69-38898 and Buzz's in shown in S69-38937. The camera transfer is the first item on Neil's checklist.]
[Armstrong - "I remember that we devised, during the training program, the LEC and the camera mount. There may have been others, but those are the two that I recall. The camera mount was something I suggested. I recall that. It was a bracket that went on the front of the RCU to hold the Hasselblads. It had always been intended that we just, you know, carry a camera like you normally carry a camera, maybe with a strap."]
[Aldrin - "With the bracket, one could conceivably take the camera down that way, rather than in the transfer bag."]
[I noted that it probably would have been impossible to get through the hatch wearing a camera. All of the crews chose to send their cameras out in the Equipment Transfer Bag (ETB).]
[Armstrong - "That would have been tight. I don't know."]
[Journal Contributor Frank O'Brien notes that the hatch is 32 inches square and that the PLSS is about "24 inches tall, about 20 inches wide, and somewhere around 8 inches deep." Neil's photo of Buzz saluting the flag, AS11-40-5874, allows us to estimate that the distance from the back of the PLSS to the front of the RCU is about 20 inches. When mounted on the RCU bracket, the camera adds another 8 inches, giving a total of 28 inches, which would have left very little clearance.]
[Returning to the missions review, I then asked Neil and Buzz about the pre-flight decision to take only one Hasselblad camera out on the EVA.]
[Aldrin - "Pretty cheap tourists."]
[Armstrong - "We had two (in the cabin), but we just used one (outside)."]