When the total number of official photographs taken during EVA of all Apollo missions is divided by the total amount of time of all EVAs, one arrives at 1.19 photos per minute. That is one photo per 50 seconds. Discounting time spent on other activities results in one photo per 15 seconds for Apollo 11. This is even more remarkable considering that many locations in the photographs are situated miles apart and would have taken considerable travel time, especially in bulky pressure suits. On top of this, the cameras were neither equipped with a viewfinder nor with automatic exposure, which means that taking good pictures would take considerably longer.

True enough, but  I got this graphic from the NASA website that shows where the pictures taken during the EVA... it doesn't take to long to stand in one spot, and turn while snapping...  after seeing this map, I can see how it might not be impossible to  average under a picture a minute.

The "big version" of this picture can be seen here:

Or, you can go to the NASA website for yourself and get it:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11photomap.gif

Added in 2008

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