[HN Gopher] Developing 120-Year-Old Photos Found in a Time Capsu...
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       Developing 120-Year-Old Photos Found in a Time Capsule [video]
        
       Author : hammock
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2023-08-30 14:55 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | politelemon wrote:
       | I find it so immensely wholesome and amusing that even then,
       | people liked taking photos of their pets. This is the connection
       | we have across the ages, cat photos.
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       | There's a follow up where they colorize the first cat photo:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eblNBqTD58
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       | And link to the author's site:
       | https://mathieustern.darkroom.com/collections/the-cat
        
       | TacticalCoder wrote:
       | I have lots of pictures from about the same epoch (probably from
       | some great-great-great-grandparents or something like that), also
       | on glass, with a similar name (I'm on vacation atm so I don't
       | have them handy): maybe not "Photocrom" but something not unlike
       | that. And I've seen people "developing" them using another
       | method: I'm not sure if they're the same thing or not.
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       | I clearly remember reading a blog where the person did built a
       | little wooden box, padded the inside of the box with aluminum
       | foil, then put a DSLR camera on a tripod. He'd then place one of
       | these "glass" photo on the box, take a picture with the DSLR,
       | then move on to the next "glass" photo. And then do some
       | processing in whatever software (and the result was great).
       | 
       | If I recall correctly I read that these old glass photos now
       | after 100+ years begin to fade and those that aren't developed
       | are soon going to be lost.
        
         | actionfromafar wrote:
         | By developing is generally meant the chemical process of
         | converting the invisible image created by photons changing the
         | electron state of silvery stuff on the plate or film, into a
         | fixed, visible image.
         | 
         | What you describe is the process of inverting a negative image
         | into a positive. (Black to white and vice versa.) Also very
         | important because as you say, the images can fade over time.
        
         | sys32768 wrote:
         | I scanned a couple dozen of them from the 1910s on an Epson
         | Perfection V600 flatbed scanner. Incredible detail on the
         | resulting scans, so the original camera must have had quite a
         | lens, not to mention a good photographer.
        
         | TedDoesntTalk wrote:
         | > probably from some great-great-great-grandparents
         | 
         | How did these come to be in your hands, and are you interested
         | in the lives of you great-granparents^3 or does it not matter?
        
       | telesilla wrote:
       | I wonder how future generations will see our digital artefacts,
       | pixelated and 2 dimensional. Old-timey the way we see 1900s film.
        
         | verisimi wrote:
         | Do you think they will be able to access them? They are rather
         | immaterial...
        
         | Archelaos wrote:
         | They must have a very different impression of the past than we
         | do. Imagine if we had live footage of Roman emperors or people
         | hunting mammoths.
        
         | soperj wrote:
         | Some early film is more innovative than most film these days.
        
       | ShadowBanThis01 wrote:
       | Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37290310
        
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