NSFW Anon Archived Anyone else notice how they had high quality photos of the Holocasut for 70years ago... Higher quality then my childhood photos 30 years ago (QRV)
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NSFW Anon Archived Anyone else notice how they had high quality photos of the Holocasut for 70years ago... Higher quality then my childhood photos 30 years ago (QRV)
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Most of the still photos taken by the military were made using a military issued Speed Graphic 4x5" camera using sheet film. Even Tr-X, the fastest regularly issued film had an ASA rating of 400, and although "grainy", contact prints made from the negatives were equivalent or better in definition than the most sophisticated digital cameras of today. Motion pictures made by military combat cameramen were filmed with 16mm black and white film usually ASA 25. The color films were usually Kodachrome, ASA 10 or ASA 12. (The lower the ASA number, the "slower" the film, I.e. The finer the grain.). Amateur cameras were almost always either 120 or 620 film which yielded a negative image of 3x5 inches. The images seen in newspapers, books, etc. are usually third or fourth generation copies of copies. If you have viewed the first generation prints from 4x5" negatives made by Combat cameramen, you would be able to see incredible detail -- the threads in clothing for example.