(2023-01-25, 12:59 PM)GowerGulch42 Wrote: Wow, these are fantastic! Do you know of a way to guess the focal length of a lens from this era? Knowing the size of the negative would help, but is that information even known in many of these?
Thank you.
I believe the optical quality and specifics of the lenses of yesteryear and today make up for at least some of the disparity and challenge to truly and accurately duplicate images.
Unless the photographer left behind field notes, it would be difficult to determine the cameras and lenses used. Large format cameras were the norm for those scenes from the 1800s and probably the early 1900s, but hand held cameras were becoming more common as well in the 1905-1920 era. I've got a hand held, folding bellows c.1917 Zeiss-Ikon in my collection that is of a similar size of a 35mm SLR.
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~When You Live in Nevada, "just down the road" is anywhere in the line of sight within the curvature of the earth.