Circa 1925: Atwater Kent sweatshop photo

[Mark W.]

The detail comes from the size of the negitive. Since the size of a grain of silver is the same size weather 35mm or 8X10 an 8X10 negitive has 53.33 times the number of grains to record the image on! try that with you digital.

The long panorama shot you see from that time period would have been shot with a Cuirut camera that had a curved film plane and the film was on a roll as the camera traversed an arc (geared head on the tripod) the light passed through a slot and exposed the film since the film plane matched the arc there is no lens distortion and the whole frame is in focus as they would line up the soliders or who ever on an arc again matching the film plane. When the photo was printed it could be 4 feet long and all of it be in the same plane of focus.

[VinylHanger]

Originally Posted by Mark W.

The detail comes from the size of the negitive. Since the size of a grain of silver is the same size weather 35mm or 8X10 an 8X10 negitive has 53.33 times the number of grains to record the image on! try that with you digital.

The long panorama shot you see from that time period would have been shot with a Cuirut camera that had a curved film plane and the film was on a roll as the camera traversed an arc (geared head on the tripod) the light passed through a slot and exposed the film since the film plane matched the arc there is no lens distortion and the whole frame is in focus as they would line up the soliders or who ever on an arc again matching the film plane. When the photo was printed it could be 4 feet long and all of it be in the same plane of focus.

This is color, but you would be hard pressed to get this beautiful of a picture these days. Once digital reaches this level, then it will be king. I love the colors of this picture. The gal ain't bad either.

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