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Old USA photos

Postby zafra52 on Sun Apr 28, 2013 10:43 am

These photographs illistrate the high resolution of glass plate negatives.

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Re: Old USA photos

Postby Matt. K on Sun Apr 28, 2013 6:26 pm

They were just stunning! It just goes to show that photography was technically outstanding before the turn of the century....and even now our fancy digital cameras are not really capable of the beauty that the medium displayed in the hands of an expert....and an old glass plate large format camera.
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Re: Old USA photos

Postby gstark on Mon Apr 29, 2013 3:34 am

Bloody amazing.

Thanks for posting.
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Re: Old USA photos

Postby the foto fanatic on Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:21 am

Great photographs indeed! Lovely to see.

Remember though - we are talking about huge cameras mounted on heavy tripods. Most exposures would be quite long.

Have a look at the photo of the workers at the construction sight. They are all completely static to enable that photo to be taken.
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