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<blockquote data-quote="Land Rover" data-source="post: 11221" data-attributes="member: 530"><p>Congrats backcreek,,,, A little history about the two , In 1951 3,500 glass plate negatives were discovered in a garage in Chatswood Sydney ,these were the greatest documentation of Life on the gold fields in Australia,The uniqueness of these negatives was not only for their historic record but also the process they were made. Glass plate negatives hold great detail of the photographed subject as they can be blown up with no distortion .If You go onto the Holterman collection and select a photo of a shop You can zoom in and read the writing on the goods in the shop ,,extremely resolute and ahead of there time.</p><p></p><p>L/R</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Land Rover, post: 11221, member: 530"] Congrats backcreek,,,, A little history about the two , In 1951 3,500 glass plate negatives were discovered in a garage in Chatswood Sydney ,these were the greatest documentation of Life on the gold fields in Australia,The uniqueness of these negatives was not only for their historic record but also the process they were made. Glass plate negatives hold great detail of the photographed subject as they can be blown up with no distortion .If You go onto the Holterman collection and select a photo of a shop You can zoom in and read the writing on the goods in the shop ,,extremely resolute and ahead of there time. L/R [/QUOTE]
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