The Lemon Fool

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When I wrote one of the series of ' x through time' books, some 96 photos of then and now, what I discovered whilst trying to create the same scene now was that photographers or cameras of old did not do depth-of-field.

brightncheerful wrote:https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/12/walk-through-time-with-the-gentle-author-at-christmas/


When I wrote one of the series of ' x through time' books, some 96 photos of then and now, what I discovered whilst trying to create the same scene now was that photographers or cameras of old did not do depth-of-field.

Much more difficult to do with the frame size of the cameras and the long exposure times needed.

John

brightncheerful wrote:https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/12/walk-through-time-with-the-gentle-author-at-christmas/When I wrote one of the series of ' x through time' books, some 96 photos of then and now, what I discovered whilst trying to create the same scene now was that photographers or cameras of old did not do depth-of-field.

Thankyou.
I do love these blended photographs, albeit with a sadness for what has been lost from our streetscapes.

I had not noticed the lack of depth-of-field. One would think the opposite, given the relatively small apertures of older cameras. My first camera was a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 515/2, the max aperture was 4.5 and iirc it closed down to 64.

V8