[Leica] IMG: Old B&W Revisited

[Douglas Barry]

Yes, it is, Sonny.
I'm up to my tits at the moment and am only skimming through images, but 
curiosity drove me into the arms of Google streetview before I posted, 
and, because there was an oddity to the place on that, I mentioned the 
reshoot as I love images that contrast the old with the new.  Seeing 
Jim's later comment that the date numbers have been moved from one 
building to the next, I realised the cause of the strangeness in the 
image is that the fronts on some of the buildings have also been lowered 
- in addition to the date relocation. Don't know why they did that, but 
the place looks better in Jim's 1952 image. In photography the power of 
the fourth dimension - time - is amazing.

Any further backstory on that, Jim?

Douglas


On 27/03/2018 13:29, Sonny Carter via LUG wrote:
> This looks like the same block:
>
> http://www.sonc.com/Aberdeen.jpg
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> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 5:39 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>
>> A very nice trip in the time machine, Jim. Don't know whether you still
>> travel back there, but it would be interesting to see a contemporary photo
>> from the same spot using a similar length lens. Google street view shows it
>> but it's not the same.
>>
>> Douglas
>>
>> On 25/03/2018 17:23, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>
>>> Nathan's recent B&W images set me to thinking about older images.  With
>>> the tools available today, older scanned images can undergo considerable
>>> improvement.  Here is a small town street scene from my home town, shot in
>>> 1952 with my Leica IIIa and 50/3.5 Elmar. Processed with LR and PS with
>>> help from Focus Magic and Neat image.
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20100426-Commer
>>> ce+Street+Aberdeen+MS+52+orig.JPG.html
>>>
>>> Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated.
>>>
>>>
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