[pure-silver] Re: Lensmen: 1919
- From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:44:24 -0600
On 12/20/2009 4:27 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Daneliuk" <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 8:43 AM
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Lensmen: 1919
>
>
>> On 12/20/2009 3:22 AM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Dec 19, 2009 9:10 PM
>>>> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Lensmen: 1919
>>>>
>>>> On 12/19/2009 9:44 PM, Bogdan Karasek wrote:
>>>>> What are the cameras??
>>>>>
>>>>> Bogdan
>>>>
>>>> They look like early vintage Graflex to me.
>>>>
>>> They are 5x7 Speed Graphics. They are of the vintage known as top
>>> handle Graphics to distinguish them from the later side handle
>>> models, which were otherwise quite similar. The guy on the right
>>> seems to have moved the optical finder from the right rear to the
>>> center, under the handle. That would have cured some of the parallax.
>>> I am not sure if these cameras had wire finders originally, if so
>>> they have been removed. The top handle would have interfered with
>>> them so perhaps there were none.
>>> There is more information at http://www.graflex.org which will
>>> help date these cameras.
>>> BTW, there is a story, probably apocraphal, which explains why
>>> Graflex SLRs, once the standard press camera, was replaced by the
>>> Speed Graphic. According to this story a photographer working for the
>>> New York Times was killed covering an automobile race because he
>>> could not see an oncoming car with his face in the hood. The Times
>>> ruled that no more Graflex cameras were to be used. Could be but
>>> Graflex cameras did continue to be used along with Speed Graphics
>>> well into the 'thirties. These fellows would probably have been using
>>> 5x7 glass plates.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Incidentally, that web site is just full of great old B&W images.
>> 'Well worth the time
>> to wander around.
>>
> Most of the images at Shorpy are from the Library of Congress site.
> They have been Photoshoped. The LOC has very large uncompressed files
> available on line but you need a very high speed line to make them
> practical. Both Shorpy and the LOC have a lot of early Kodachrome most
> of which looks extremely good.
>
> --
In what respect have they been Photoshopped? Merely compressing the
images ought to do them no material harm when viewed on the internet...
or is there more to it than this?
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