Rocky Whiteside
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That if we were ever lucky enough to see sinking photos we would be fortunate to see even this much in them?
Would I be right in saying
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Michael H. Standart
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If by those images, you mean a lot of pitch black, that would be just about right. If you were there, you might be surprised at what the naked eye could pick up, especially if a witness had time to gain some useful night vision, but contemporary cameras just weren't up to it.
Rocky Whiteside
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Yup! That's what I meant!
Jim Kalafus
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No, you'd likely be wrong in saying that. The box-type of camera had a manual shutter. You depressed the lever, counted X-number of seconds, depending on lighting conditions, then closed the shutter.
A photo taken while close to the ship, with a long exposure, would have been blurry, due to the movement of the lifeboat, but recognizable. From a distance, it would have registered as a smear of light on the negative.
When Brandon McKinney, ET contributor, was in NYC last winter, he brought a vintage box camera and film of an ASA/ISO as close to the original as it was possible to get. He took some existing light photos with it that turned out fairly well.
The enemy, in this case, would not have been the camera or the film, but the motion of the lifeboat during the 30-60 second exposure time.
A photo taken while close to the ship, with a long exposure, would have been blurry, due to the movement of the lifeboat, but recognizable. From a distance, it would have registered as a smear of light on the negative.
When Brandon McKinney, ET contributor, was in NYC last winter, he brought a vintage box camera and film of an ASA/ISO as close to the original as it was possible to get. He took some existing light photos with it that turned out fairly well.
The enemy, in this case, would not have been the camera or the film, but the motion of the lifeboat during the 30-60 second exposure time.
Jim Kalafus
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This photo was taken, on B&W film, with a long exposure. I was passing over the Morro Castle disaster site, on the anniversary of the disaster, in a storm, and was pleased to see a liner hovering exactly where the Monarch of Bermuda had been. So, I did a series of exposures, at different shutter sppeds, of which this one came out the most recognizably ship-like:
Not scientifically perfect, since I was using ASA 400. But this gives a tolerable approximation of the best possible results at a distance of about 500 yards
Not scientifically perfect, since I was using ASA 400. But this gives a tolerable approximation of the best possible results at a distance of about 500 yards
Rocky Whiteside
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I see what you mean.
