Herbert George Ponting and telephoto apparatus, Antarctica, January 1912
Herbert George Ponting and telephoto apparatus, Antarctica, January 1912
Reference Number: PA1-f-067-067-3
Silver gelatin print
Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library
The massive size of the tripod stuns me. Looks like someone modified a surveyors tripod by the looks of the mount.
Very interesting picture
ou yess
amazing classic
must be hard to flick though the menu interface with those animal gloves.
These were the devotees of photography. This was the only way, not an option.
Talk about patience.
how cool 🙂
Are you sure this is not a primitive machinegun?
Beautiful ! . imagine having that today! You’d have to join a gym to keep in shape just to carry it!
great photo!
The device they used as a light meter here its called a watkins bee meter f stops on the left!! f/90 anyone?
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/25797459@N06/4628372963/] you rotate the front and a sliver of light reactive paper appears< the 2 semicircles open up to reveal white paper
You needed a stop watch and timed how long it took for the paper to match the 2 sides to be of equal darkness in the small circle at bottom.
The exposure times are scarily long.
Its light reactive paper or something. This one still works
Gorgeous
Seems more like heavy machine gun mounted on a tripod ! 🙂
Chuck Norris invented this camera.
Now that’s what I call a long lens!!!
Is a Nikon!! 🙂
cannon lol
Ultra machine gunner at a casual glance…:-)
Looks like a Cannon to me!
Wonderful picture! I’m not sure that’s a telephoto lens, however, just a very long normal one.
Was Flickr even around back then? 🙂
Nice !! No battery problems, either.
Imagine those gloves as a christmas present lol where you try and guess what they are from the wrapping.
Wow Amazing!!!
he become my personal hero 😀
nice gloves
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What a piece of crap. Probably only has like 2 mega-pickles
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanetics] I’d say 1 pickle
No pickles here but probably some mighty fine grain film. Imagine the work these guys had to go through to get one good image!
Considering that it is (probably) a whole plate camera – 6.5 x 8.5 ins – and assuming a resonable fine grain is used on the glass plates, I reckon the resolution would exceed any of the prosumer digitals in use today!
My experience digitising whole print photographs obtained by contact printing from glass plates, is that detail is there down to 1200ppi.
Damn then why are so many big plate looky camera pictures from the 1860s look like crap?
It’s a matter of price / performance. The majority of people would not be rich enough to buy quality material. Even compared to the 1970s your cheap ass DSLR lens is of much higher precision at a lower cost than could ever be made by back then.
Also, each single snapshot would be very expensive, even if it ended up looking like crap, you couldn’t afford to throw it away.
But just look at this picture. Almost 100 year old. Made in crazy cold temperatures. Your DSLR batteries would drain in half an hour. And the quality is amazing. But since we’re talking arctic explorers here, they probably had the money to bring two high quality cameras along. (I mean, who made this picture!)
Well thats kind of a give in :p
It’s so strange…such an old photo with so much quality 🙂
Congratulations
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/dawadderman]
there often wasn’t a button – you just removed the lens cap to start the exposure and replace it when you wanted to stop!
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/51996567@N08]
often because they were poorly developed, or poorly scanned, or simply degraded over time.
Spectacular Photo!
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At first I really thought he was holding a machine gun. Also those mitts are fun, bear paws.
Could you imagine setting this camera up today at New York for street photography? 🙂
Si esta foto es original constituye todo un documento acerca de los equipos fotograficos que se utilizaba en 1912 y más en la antartida. Hoy en días las cámaras actuales por más que sean resistentes a las condiciones atmosfericas en lugares extremos como la antartida requieren de protección como esta cámara.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Ponting
I want those gloves 😀
Make sure youre spare film doesnt get too hot and is refridgerated
thats what you call armed and deadly!
vintage
he visto sientos de camara pero nuca ubiera imajinado gue exsistio una asi estoy asonbradoy eso no me sucede tan facil
I love how it’s called Apparatus
Old Fashion
Dio come lo invidio, ma perchè non sono nato a quei tempi?!
MG 42 😀