[pure-silver] Re: It Sneaks Up On You...
- From: Grif <kgriffit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:08:16 -0800
I work for part of the DOI, we do surface water management in the
west CONUS. In our regional office are some 20"x24" or so prints on
the walls of various facilities and farmers. The detail is
absolutely amazing. I was looking at one last week that was shot by
our photographer at the time, dated 1906. Granted you can tell the
shutter speed was really slow, a bit of blur on most people, flags
and tractor tires that were moving, but the overall sharpness and
amount of detail, even with my bifocals was an order of magnitude
greater than anything I've seen in the last 30 years or
so. (subminiature and color film). Looking thru our old negatives
and archives, I'm not sure they shot anything except 4x5.
Compared to the documentation work done up thru the late 1950's or
so, we can't even hold a candle to them.
At 12:26 PM 12/20/2011, you wrote:
Gerald Koch wrote:
> I wonder what the student would have thought about small screw cap metal
> cans.
> The world is changing and I fear not for the better and it's not only
> photographic materials..
>
Thinking about metal cans, if I gave a can of D-76 to a student today,
would they even know how to open it? Would they have the necessary tool?
I even have trouble finding loose tea. No photo dealer around here has
photo chemicals. B&H is the nearest, and Calumet is far away. And
neither sell Kodak Elite Fine Art paper, and have not for many many
years. I still have some TMax sheets in 100 sheet boxes, 100 and 400 EI.
But I worry if it will be around when I open the last box of each.
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