Jay,
Amazing, thanks for pointing the exhibition out to us all.
Last year the Metropolitan Museum in New York City had an exhibition on the
history of the Empire state. It included a lot of photographs from the
dawn of photography. Some of the prints were nearly 11x14 inches and
extremely sharp. They had to be contact prints from a glass plate that
size which is a big load of 'film' to carry. The sharpness of the
photographs fascinated me. For some reason, in the early days of
photography, lens makers where able to formulate lenses that had edge to
edge sharpness on a large imaging surface. Camera obscuras (spelling?) and
optics were pretty well understood at the time - but I wonder who did the
lens math, and how. At least they didn't have to worry about chromatic
matters, the early emulsions were mainly blue sensitive.
George in Berkeley
At 10:31 PM 05/06/2001 -0500, you wrote:
Check out http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/gorskii.html ... The US Library
of Congress has put up an exhibition with a few images taken just before WWI
and the Russian Revolution by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, in
color. He used a view camera with a long glass plate and three filters, red,
green, and blue, to take what, with a little bit of digital magic, are very
striking color pictures. Definitely worth a look. Click on the "Making Color
Images" link at the top of the page for a description of the process.
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