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Originally Posted by craigster59
Coney Island, New York City, photographed in 1903.
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Originally Posted by Steve Carlton
The quality of that image seems too good for 1903 to me.
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
8x10 film and a tripod mounted camera. HUGE film stock and the image is not enlarged, it is reduced. The color is likely new from this century, but the image quality of old film cameras was amazing.
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Exactly what Glenn (lifetime photographer) said.
Most of the film that most of us have dealt with is 35mm. So the image is recorded on a spot not much bigger than a postage stamp. Most of the cameras back then used a piece of glass the size of a piece of notebook paper. The amount of detail in a photo with good light and no motion was amazing.
Go to
https://www.shorpy.com/
Great site full of scans of historic negatives, many, these huge glass plates.
check out the detail in this one. Once you pull up the page, you can click the image and that should make it full size.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26855
random pics of rusty old tools and things in a "cave" in France.
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