[PRCo] Re: Call Me Crazy...

[Fred Schneider]

Suggests to me that the negative is a copy of a halftone copy of an  
original halftone from an original photo, i.e. a fourth-generation  
copy.    But I would have to look at it to be certain.


On Jun 8, 2006, at 9:30 PM, Ken & Tracie wrote:

> Hi Fred,
>
>
> I am looking at the print with the pattern and the negative...they  
> both have it.
>
> K.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net>
>> Sent: Jun 8, 2006 7:27 PM
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Call Me Crazy...
>>
>> I took hundreds of photos on the Northside from 1963-66, and never  
>> got any
>> cross-hatch photos, but then I was shooting color slide film.
>>
>> The moire pattern shows up when you scan a halftone print, such as  
>> a printed
>> page.  Photographs have a continuous tone, so the pattern doesn't  
>> happen
>> when you scan a photoprint...but maybe the scanner used for the  
>> North Side
>> photo was on the wrong  scan setting.
>>
>> Bob 6/8/06
>>
>> -----------------------------
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ken & Tracie" <ktjosephson at earthlink.net>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:19 AM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Call Me Crazy...
>>
>>
>>> ..but what is it with Routes 10-15 and this crazy cross hatch  
>>> pattern in
>>> this print???
>>> Roberta Hill photpgraphed this line in '62, '63 and during the  
>>> line's last
>>> week. Nearly all her pix along this section of the system have that
>>> cross-hatch or woven dot look to them. So does some of the  
>>> footage in
>>> TGM's video of this line.
>>>
>>> Anybody else have this problem with camera film when  
>>> photographing this
>>> line?
>>>
>>> Is it possible some weird military experiments were going on in  
>>> the area
>>> that may have caused visual "noise" in camera film? Microwave  
>>> towers?
>>> Activity at the Nike site?
>>>
>>> Any "cancer clusters" in the area since the 1960s?
>>>
>>> K.
>>>
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