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The most rare, top-tier eclipse photo would be the Solar Earth Eclipse, but the Apollo 12 crew's attempt to capture it was marred by camera shake. They said it looked spectacular, though.
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Apollo 12 had some pretty bad luck with cameras. They accidentally pointed the lunar surface video camera at the sun burning out the vidicon tube, and a camera mounted in a window fell and hit Al Bean in the head during splashdown.