A serious question for Ancalagon...

While paper photos from that era tend to be faded and scratchy looking, you'd be amazed at just how sharp and clear the images are on the glass photographic plates from which those prints were originally printed from. The detail in an 8x10 glass negative can easily rival the quality of DSLR. Remember, were talking about an image area that's nearly 100 times the image area of a 35mm neg. If Burns was working from new prints from original glass negatives, the resulting images may not have been retouched at all.

@garamet , a word of advice: you've already embarrassed yourself spectacularly in this thread and should consider just leaving it alone and moving on. As you told another poster very recently, you might want to remember your dignity.

We've been discussing 19th century photography. Does the subject embarrass you? Don't do it in your car, then.

Oh, and no Ginger Beef for you.

Senility is so sad .

I've told you, but you keep forgetting: If donepezil isn't effective, you should ask your doctor to switch you to memantine. Write it on a Post-It right now so you'll remember.

Yeah, I know. I've seen prints from glass negatives in person.

I wonder if there might be a way to digitize a glass negative directly and "develop" it using a computer, bypassing the print completely.

The technical quality of the stills in this Roosevelt series are better than anything I've ever seen before, in person or on teevee, which makes me think they sweetened them some with photo editing software. Whether they're from prints or negatives, once the images are digitized (which they all are), why not do it if it improves the look even a little? I know I do it on the rare occasions I have the time.

It makes events come to life in even greater detail, so yeah, why not?

Mags, do yourself a favour. Just let it the fuck go.

(A) Username, please
(B) I have. WAB and Face can't seem to, though.

They're kind of like gnats. You can let 'em buzz around until they try to get in your ear, or you can whack 'em every time they try.

Besides, this thread should stay on the first page just to annoy Volpone.

Nobody cares about Volpone and nobody is going to whack said flies because said flies will buzz around anyway.

You are compromising your dignity with your constant replies to this thread. It's almost Castle-esque.

Fuck's sake. Just do yourself a favour and walk away.

Oh, come on, I had to!

Except it's almost impossible to kill a gnat that's flying. The damn things are like ninjas unless you've got arms that can travel at mach speed and being stone age I seriously doubt you've got arms like that.

So you're not actually whacking them.....

Mags is the Godmother, dontchaknow!

I'll walk away when all the rest of you are finished me.

Good point. And they've got a lifespan of about five minutes but why, oh why, if there's one in the entire house, does it insist on flying between your nose and the monitor?

Then there are these fuckers:


I've just had to toss out an entire shelf full of baking ingredients. HTF do they get inside a sealed Ziploc bag????

Second warning. Don't make me come over there!

When the repair guys came out to fix our air conditioner, there was an opening in the window long enough for a single gnat to get in, and it (or its offspring) has been pestering us for weeks now. Every time I think I've killed it, it comes back!

Get a kitty.
They love to hunt and eat those little suckers.

This thread is more fun than the latest news on Lindsay Lohan.

She hasn't died of coke overdose yet?

This is my second favorite WF Community Players production of "Fatal Attraction" yet.

Lindsay Lohan's doing a remake of Fatal Attraction?

Page 5!

You can't really be so thin skinned that a few nonsensical posts by me have caused you to go into psychotic stalker meets Rain Man mode?

Dye your hair red. I think that's the triggering mechanism for full on psychotic stalker meets Rain Man mode.

Right now you're more then likely on the half-full on psychotic stalker meets Handi Man mode.

Sorta like @Tererun !

I'm just trying to figure out the object of Volpone's fatal attraction. Is it you? Soma? You and Soma?

I would have personally gone for a roach reference, but that is what makes me better than you at this.

Oh, yes. I forgot your self proclaimed master troll skills.

Seriously, announcing I R TROLL LOL is not the way to troll. The best trolls are subtle where folks that haven't been around long enough can easily believe them to be a legit poster. Like Enterpriser.

That would have been a non sequitur.