[PRCo] Re: Tylerdale

[Jim Holland]

> On 29 Dec 2006 at 22:29, Fred Schneider wrote:
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>> I truly suspect that the colors in that picture are as close as 
>> you're going to get to realism and that the red and cream streetcar 
>> is the only object on a gray day that had any color other than 
>> various intensities of gray.
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NEW____INFORMATION    Below,   A-N-D   Slide  scanned afresh.
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>> Donald Galt wrote:
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> Seriously, though, I don't think we are looking at a slide. Rather, at 
> a low-resolution 120 print that has been touched up - quite expertly! 
> - by a colourist.

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The Color one  I-S  a slide and the B&W is a print  --  both from 
Scholes Photos as Ed thought  --  doesn't mean Scholes took them.
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> It looks so very much like some of the better of the b&w pictures that 
> I used to take as a child. The tinges of in the snow look to be done 
> by a human hand, and the tinting isn't as crisp as the photo itself. 
> The yellowish cast to the entire picture could possibly come from the 
> camera but could just as likely be due to a subtle wash. 1707 may well 
> be the only vivid object in the photo. Not that vivid, though, not in 
> this unpromising light.

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Scanning irregularities from older scanners  --  slide is Obviously a 
copy  --  much to be washed out.
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> I can't prove it - just my hunch. As I said, if a tint job, a skillful 
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> The colour quality available to the well-heeled photographer as long 
> ago as 6 decades is seen in the Washington Interurban photos in Bill 
> Volkmer's Pittsburgh Area book. A couple of them claim to date from 
> 1944. In any case, the Washington city pictures are obviously no later 
> than their stated 1952-3. Oh, if only we had a few more like them! Or 
> a few dozen more.
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> Don Galt

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Again  --  quick scan, older scanner, color copy slide.
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I-F   the comparison were from original Slides / Color Prints / B&W 
prints then the above observations would carry Far More Weight.    But 
these are Crude Scans and the color  'scan'  may be from a print made 
from a 'copy' slide which is Kodachrome 1.       I originally posted 
many of these.
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Jim___Holland
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I scanned the slide afresh at normal screen  DPI  (096)  for  8X10 size 
   ----    it is   UnEdited.       The photo is  NOT  retouched and was 
a full color slide  'reportedly'  taken in 1950 and with the  
PITTSBURGH  display for the destination, this should be accurate    
----    note that even the roof monitor displays the gray tone which was 
discussed here before.       So Here We Go with another of 1707 at 
Tylerdale in the photo list!!!!!!!


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