What gets me is that the videos warp the perspective of the Earth in a way where it doesn't appear large anymore; and I wonder if that would happen with astronauts too.
They break through the atmosphere and then all of a sudden it looks like a small globe when the point-of-reference switches to the blackness of space.
The moon is a long way away. The furthest man has ever been from terra firma. The Earth is small at that distance compared to images from ISS or even a geosync satellite. The distance to the moon is about 30 Earths for perspective, over 400,000 kilometers away.
Different lenses would be the obvious answer. The lander's imagery looks like wide angle lenses while the Apollo image was taken by a human using a 250mm lens. If you watch the video in the link you'll see all of this info. It even shows a recreation of what it would look like to the astronauts which makes the earth look much smaller in the images
They break through the atmosphere and then all of a sudden it looks like a small globe when the point-of-reference switches to the blackness of space.