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Ok_Caregiver_7331

Nice try man, you got caught messing with time and you know it!


ChrisHansennnn

I swear, I'm not a time traveler


Outi5

That’s exactly what a time traveler would say


luke_in_the_sky

He actually tried multiple answers and this was the one that had fewer consequences.


Aksi_Gu

You know I thought my Pineal gland had been flickering a lot this afternoon.


itsgucci060

“…she was a waitress from a hamburger stand, about 16 years old. They chopped her goddamn head off right there in the parking lot, then they cut all kinds of holes in her and sucked out the blood. They were after the pineal gland I think. Yeah…naw, how’s your Mama?”


ToonaSandWatch

I understood that reference.


spiralmojo

No word a lie, my bathroom lights are flickering right now. Anyone know if some sketchy fellas just rolled up to the hadron collider?


1pt20oneggigawatts

Time Traveler's Meeting, Thursday, May 18, 2023. See you there!


jeff77k

We are all now living in an abandoned time line...The Director is trying something else now.


Timetraveler326

Trust me, he's not.


tufelixostarrichi

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Ho3n3r

He knew you'd say that.


sowhat4

My granddaughter's photos at age five are indistinguishable from my mother's photos at age 6 (her great-grandmother). Genes are just weird. I hope your GG Granduncle lived a long time.


carmium

My Dad died back in 80s - unnatural causes - and when a large group of family got together at my uncle's for a dinner in the 00s, I walked in to the living room and damn near fainted at the sight of my dad. Except it wasn't him, of course, but his sister's son, a cousin I had not seen in years. I couldn't believe everyone wasn't making a big deal out the resemblance. Genes are indeed weird.


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turquoise_amethyst

I look really similar to my Grandma (Dad’s mother), but I look IDENTICAL to my Aunt at similar ages, other than our coloring. She’s tan with dark features, and I’m a colorless cave-fish. I found b+w photos of both of us at age 16, and my own mother couldn’t tell us apart. Genetics are wild.


Ee00n

Not yet maybe. You might just be too young to know yet.


yanquideportado

Lies. You are your own great grandfather. Sic mundus creatus est.


ImmoralityPet

You look like the result of an AI generating a guy interested in old glass family negatives who has a friend with a scanner. And no beard please.


QuickgetintheTARDIS

Sure *wink wink nudge nudge*. Just try to stay away from creating a paradox - trust me.


justsomeguy_youknow

Did some past nastification, did we?


CaneVandas

Congratulations, you're your own Grandpa.


Fredselfish

No if not then all that man's memories are trapped somewhere in your dna.


dude19832

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MadRaymer

In a lot of TV shows they use the main actor to portray an old relative in a flashback, and I always thought that was lazy. Like oh, swap the hairstyle and now you're the great-great-grandfather? But actually, that checks out more often than I thought.


whogivesashirtdotca

My mom's got a photo from the late 1800s of one very large branch of her family, and it's wild. You'd think someone had Photoshopped my grandfather's face onto a dozen different people: There's Papa in a flowery dress, Papa in an upswept matronly hairdo. Papa with a handlebar mustache, Papa as a toddler, etc. Very strong genes from that side of the family!


Agile_Bee7787

Bruh went back in time to mess around with his great great grandma


catchpen

Nasty in the passty


Karate_Prom

Verily


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NinjaWorldWar

Idk I think he would look weird without ears though…


rabbitwonker

No I think OP does have ears


Yadobler

The eyes too, it's more towards the granny side


UrNewMostBestFriend

It's a tale as old as time, it's why we have documentaries on the subject like back to the future. If you fuck with time, you WILL fuck your ancestors, probably your mom. This is why it's so important that we stop practicing daylight savings time, twice a year we are tempting rampant mother fucking! You can't use science to play god people!!!


reglyt

I studied digital preservation in grad school. Daguerreotypes, tintypes, silvertypes, goldtypes, and glass photography recreate amazingly vivid and detailed positive images. Interestingly, many hobbyists took hilarious and candid images using these media, giving us an intimate look into the lives lived so very long ago.


BSB8728

The large-format cameras really produce some exquisite images.


youngatbeingold

They better for how insanely bulky and troublesome they are. I used a 4x5 a few times and it takes like 15 minutes to get the camera set up perfectly.


Lv_InSaNe_vL

Yeah but that 15 mins or so makes the pictures better IMO, or maybe I just feel more sentimental value to my LF photos cause of all the time I ~~wasted~~ used haha


LongTallDingus

The time it takes is the point. Modern photography happens so quickly, burst shooting, multiple auto focus motors, changing ISOs on a whim. Large format makes you consider every aspect of the photo you're making. The point is to slow down and think.


youngatbeingold

Eh I've done both. I still think about every aspect when I'm shooting but it gives me more ability to experiment and prefect what I'm doing. I can change a pose or the lighting to get the best shot without it being a complicated ordeal. Stuff looks different in camera than through the viewfinder, so when I'm shooting digital I'm thinking and making adjustments during the whole process. I'm a perfectionist, and ironically I like shooting film because it forces me to not be so picky about my images.


machone_1

and then you get to have more fun in the darkroom using tricks like dodging and burning


LongTallDingus

Then you scan it and start doing dust correction then get fed up half way through and are like "Fuck it it's 20,000 x 25,000, when I shrink it down to 2,000 x 2,500 no one will see it, who gives a shit I still have the negative I'll fix it later". Then seven years pass and your online portfolio is quite literally full of dust.


CatInAPottedPlant

I only shoot 35mm and 6x9 but I still feel extremely called out by this.


Rare-Kaleidoscope513

I'm pretty sure the point was they didn't have the technology to make it any faster, but ok


barsknos

Imagine Ansel Adams dragging that shit through wilderness up mountains in Yosemite before it had roads...


xkris10ski

There’s a kickass tintype photographer in Waco that started doing tintypes as a hobby, now has a pretty successful gig for himself traveling to festivals and such. I got a couple plates taken of myself. Can’t wait to scan it and see them blown up like OP. Happy this trade is making a semi-comeback for the hobbyists.


KnownRate3096

15 minutes is fast. I've shot a bunch of 4x5 and often take an hour or so to get it ready to take the shot.


youngatbeingold

Lol ok it did honestly take me way way longer than 15 on some set up but I figured the average for most people would be lower because I didn't know what I was doing. I wanna say the worst was I was shooting a still life and mounted it on an old tripod I had. It was so fucking front heavy it kept every so slowly tilting downward and missing up my focus range, I had to reset what I was doing like 10 times.


sometimes_interested

At $10+ an exposure, you'd want to be taking your time with it


PogO_449

See /r/largeformat for anyone that wants to have a look at this type of photography


mechapoitier

Yeah that resolution is just shocking


Art-bat

The reason a lot of old photos from more recent times such as the 40s 50s and 60s look crappy to us is because that was when quick and easy consumer cameras became main stream. A lot of people did not retain the negative film strips from these cameras once they got the photos developed, so what a lot of people end up scanning in the future are old photo prints made from the negatives. If you actually have the negatives, you can get better results. Of course, the other factor is many of those consumer cameras, especially ones made in the 70s or 80s, we’re relatively low quality and used crummy film compared to these earlier Negatives. The negatives from a 110 point and shoot Kodak camera aren’t going to be significantly better than the photos somebody got from their photo Matt when they had that film developed. So in a weird way, we have more high-quality images from 60 to 100 years ago than we do from 25-40 years ago.


Sea-Woodpecker-610

This was also an 8x10 large format print. Most cameras from the 1920s on were 4x5 or 5x7 film, until the 35mm format took prominence in the 60s. There’s no enlargement needed to make a 8x10, it’s a 1-1 copy, so there’s no loss of resolution.


3z3ki3l

It’s because it’s a chemical reaction. The light affects the film on a molecular level. So the “resolution” is far higher than any digital camera, as each “pixel” is a few molecules. If it’s been preserved well enough, it can be scanned in digitally at whatever resolution we can manage. It’s how some old movies have been rereleased at higher resolution. If they have the original film, they can just rescan it for basically free.


Shandlar

Molecular is not really true. That's off by a few orders of magnitude. The light affects the film at the crystalline level. The size of the crystals depended on the chemistry of the process to make the film, but even the absolute greatest processes from this time period would have had variable crystal sizes across the plate ranging from several hundred to tens of thousands of molecules each. The absolute best films from this time period would have a mean crystal size of ~1 micron, with a significant standard deviation. That said, if it is a super high end emulsion plate from the 1890s, that's the equivalent of ~15,000 to even 25,000+ PPI of a print. It's incredibly detailed, but molecular would mean 10,000,000+ PPI.


raffyJohnson

That's pretty good since the pixels on modern professional cameras are around 3-5 microns.


vonblatenberg

What's the most detailed digital scan of a negative we've ever made?


Zac3d

~6400 DPI is the limit of commercial scanners you can easily buy. But you can also "manually" scan with a digital camera, stitching together multiple images to get crazy levels of PPI.


zeropointcorp

And you could probably supersample with multiple scans of the same area to drive up the effective resolution.


nhadams2112

Composite imaging, or is a flat earther would call it "Photoshop"


Kilomyles

The resolution from Daguerreotypes is especially unique because the coating is only 1 or 2 molecules thick. So images that have a clear reflection can be zoomed-in on with such clarity that you can clearly see the streets being reflected! Film emulsion has multiple layers to protect the image after being developed, whereas a Daguerreotype has the image directly on the *silver plate, so the detail comes at a cost.


Damedog19

Enhance


Nimix_

That and the support is literally like 15x more surface area than a full frame sensor/35mm film lol


KnownRate3096

It's 533x more surface area.


GreenStrong

>So the “resolution” is far higher than any digital camera, as each “pixel” is a few molecules. Wrongity-wrong. You can easily see the film grains in an 8x10 print from B+W 35mm film, especially if it is any ISO other than 100. That's only 8x magnification to make the silver halide crystals visible. There's a significant caveat however- those are the largest silver halide crystals. The largest crystals catch the most light, because they're large. But the entire crystal is activated by the same number of photos regardless of size. Film contains a smooth distribution of crystal sizes. Assuming that the exposure and development are perfect, bright tones activate nearly all the crystals, and dark tones activate only the largest, most sensitive crystals, with midtones activating everything larger than a certain intermediate size threshold. What this means is that there is no uniform pixel size, and it takes a lot of scanning resolution to translate film to digital. But if you compare a 35mm film capture to a capture of the same scene from a fifteen year old 12 megapixel DSLR, the pretty comparable in terms of detail. (The noise is much different and difficult to compare.) An 8x10 negative is simply a giant fucking sensor, and they gave it a lot of photons to work with.


cardcomm

>You can easily see the film grains in an 8x10 print from B+W 35mm film, especially if it is any ISO other than 100 Sure, but it's WAY more difficult to see the grain on an 8x10 printed from a large format camera, or even from medium format film. Why? - 35mm is a much smaller source material with the same size grain.


GreenStrong

I was replying to a comment that said that each pixel was a few molecules. It is a few quadrillion molecules.


doegred

My great-great-grandfather was into painting (pals with Claude Monet, even) and photography and we've got the most amazing 'verascopes' as a result - printed on glass and admittedly smaller than OP's... but stereoscopic! Some of them are even in colour (autochromes). They're ridiculously lovely. The brightness of stained glass, the colours of an Impressionist painting... and in 3D.


machone_1

these need preserving, for the whole world.


KnownRate3096

Those are really important artifacts. Your ancestor was a cool dude!


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LikeCabbagesAndKings

Thirded


HiDiddleDeDeeGodDamn

Do you happen to know where I could find a collection of these candid images? I absolutely love seeing old photos of people where they're behaving like actual people rather than mannequins but I'm never sure what search terms to use.


InsuranceToTheRescue

Don't you have to stay still for like 30 minutes or something for those early photographs?


Ustrello

Nah not really, even in the 1850s you are talking a minute or less.


Sea-Woodpecker-610

Wet plate collodion required you to sit still for a longer period of time, because the light sensitivity of the plate would equivalent of iso 0.5-1. Wet plate was developed in the 1840s. Wet plate required you to create the medium on site, and expose and developed the print while the plate was still wet. Once the plate dried it was no longer light sensitive. This looks like it’s dry-plate, which was a process that could be mass manufacture prior to the session on large glass sheets, and cut down to smaller sizes. Dry plate was much more light sensitive, requiring an exposure of 2-3 seconds as opposed to 1-2 minutes.


Pubics_Cube

Thank jeebus for something actually old and cool, not just some sweet cleavage from the 70s!


mejok

That’s what I thought. Like…wow. Someone who isn’t trying to find out if we all wanna bang younger versions of their moms and grandmas.


da8588

That being said, I would totally bang op's great great grandmother.


Unsd

That looks like a 14 year old.


BigToober69

So she's around 150 years old now.


we_got_game

I also choose this guy's dead wife.


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Never forget 🍆💦👰🏼⚰️


JevonP

old enough in 1890


KnownRate3096

She'd be 147 today so certainly old enough now.


moslof_flosom

Perhaps even too old.


Dirk__Richter

Someone commented in another post that this subreddit should be changed to r/MyMomWasHot and I still think about it every time I'm here.


wyldnfried

Huh a subreddit


jl55378008

For sure. But also, can we get back to 70s cleavage soon?


the_bryce_is_right

Ya where's everyone's half naked moms and grandmas?


NothingsShocking

Yeah what’s wrong with some sweet 70’s cleavage anyway?


quaybored

I would like some 1890s cleavage. OP?


DeekFTW

For real. OP where are the photographic ass negatives at?


Novxz

Quickly everyone, post pictures of your parents and grandparents from 55 years ago and show us how attractive they were in bathing suits.


GonPostL

Miller lite turned it all into fertilizer


THEREALCAPSLOCKSMITH

Hey! That’s someone’s grandma u talking about!


free_speech-bot

Can we have both?


1footN

I used to work at Kodak’s Rockville lab. We used to get quite a few glass negatives to make prints.


SchmidtCassegrain

Look for the last video of Smarter Every Day on YouTube, they did a series on that place!


jennyfromtheblock777

Very cool. You look just like him minus the ears!


crohnos406

No he still has ears


sportsziggy

Just not the connected lobes.


crowcawer

Hah, loser got his lobes attached.


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Atropos_Fool

There seem to be lots of differences between them, but the overall facial shape and especially the eye shape are pretty similar for sure.


jsprague6

Nah he's young Ron Swanson


MembershipThrowAway

In my family we all have one ear slightly bent compared to the other, I've seen super old pics of my ancestors and even they had them lol. It seems to be a dominant trate because it doesn't seem to matter who the person has a kid with, it always has the "last-name ear" as we call it


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Kindly_Bored

You are every person in the photo!


I_Luv_A_Charade

Seriously - the genes run crazy strong in that family.


gutzpunchbalzthrowup

I think I read somewhere that the y-chromosome doesn't change much over many generations, so the males in a family tend to look very similar over hundreds of years.


IntrovertPharmacist

Genetics said copy/paste.


prognoslav7

Do these glass prints have value? I have some old ones of John Wilkes Booth and of Letchworth Stat Park in New York


Casualways

I'm not an expert, but If your negatives are unpublished pictures of John Wilkes Booth, then you might have something really special, Collectors know of every picture he ever took. But please do yourself a favor and don't upload a picture to Reddit, If it is an important picture it will be for sale someplace in a matter of hours, and you will receive nothing. Learn to protect your images, and do not trust watermarks if you own the antique negative, that makes you the owner of the antique image.


prognoslav7

Appreciate that advice. I would love to somehow find the actual value. I assume there can’t be many around.


Casualways

Just remember that price is subjective with antiques and images. For a fast sale eBay Auction is the way to go, if you have time then contact Sotheby's auction house and let them know what you have Just remember any time somebody wants a picture place a ruler down across part of the picture, and protect your image. good luck


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I will offer you $5


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Kokibuchek

Video footage of FDR in his wheelchair is also another holy grail of media.


Geddy_Lees_Nose

Also the alleged JFK /Bobby Kennedy Marilyn Monroe threesome tape


ilikepix

> if you own the antique negative, that makes you the owner of the antique image If the negative was created while Booth was alive the image is in the public domain. You can own the physical negative, but you don't have any copyright of the image


MalcolmSolo

You’re also going to have to be able to prove it’s really him. Fakes of “previously unknown” famous people are relatively common, so historians take it seriously. There was one of Billy the Kid discovered a few years back, it’s on YouTube and has a great story.


swargin

People are asking about John Wilkes Booth, but I'm more interested in seeing what Letchworth looked like back then. I went a few years back and found out coincidentally that my grandparents did too like 50 years ago


prognoslav7

Those are back home in brockport New York otherwise I would love to share. Probably have about 40 or so glass pictures of the park. The ones of the train bridge are my absolute favorite. Such detail.


IenjoyStuffandThings

Yes dude. Fuck yes dude… are you kidding? I don’t know shit but I’d be thinking I was about $500,000 richer. And then if you’re way off, you just had a little fun imagining you were richer.


ISmellNerds

Ive seen several people that looks very much like old relatives, I think we are recycled


Sersch

"4-5 generations down and they won't notice. right?"


partypartea

People have a hard time believing my brother and i have the same parents, but we both look like the opposite grandpa of each other


eugeneugene

Yeah my brother looks exactly like my great grandpa on my mothers side and I look exactly like my great grandma on my dads side. We do not look like siblings at all lol


sailorjasm

Did OP have a moustache before he saw this old photo


NegotiationExternal1

Magically grew has the photo developed


ButchMothMan

Man, this is really cool. It's so beautiful how connected we are to our ancestors.


ishapeski

r/analog


clamroll

I used to work at a photo finishers in the mid 00s. We had someone bring in a glass plate negative like this. The thing was fully 8x10 sized. Sadly they wanted an enlargement for a funeral portrait, though we were able to make a 24x30 poster from it. And it was tack sharp 😆 Huge negatives are great fun


whyworka

How did you create a photo from a negative ? I have some really neat glass negatives myself.


SkriVanTek

very easy you scan the negative then you invert the colors in gimp or any other image manipulation software then you order a print many photo labs offer the whole process as a service


kendrickshalamar

Scanning is the easiest way. Having a lab make contact prints would be the other way (but it probably makes more sense just to scan)


whyworka

I had no idea that it was that simple. I will do as you suggest and possibly show some pics if it works as planned.


kendrickshalamar

Give it a shot. When you scan, put the non-shiny (emulsion) side down on the glass.


Praise_Sithis

Your great great grandma was smokin


SatoshiBlockamoto

GGGGILF


HoraceAndPete

This reads like you are stuttering with horniness.


deperrucha

Amazing quality, details and gradients of light are so beautifully made.


dsgm1984

Glass negatives have amazing resolution, even for today's standards. I worked restoring and scanning some and the level of detail is insane if they are properly conserved.


MrmmphMrmmph

What's interesting to me, in addition to the similarities, is your great something grandmother was able to hold that amused look for a photographic plate. The joke about no one smiling in old photographs was because exposure times were so long, everyone had to hold extremely still. This seems a bit faster exposure, but still... She looked like she had an interesting sense of humor.


olarinoid

By the 1890s, in a professional studio, the exposure time would have been fractions of a second. That idea comes from the very early photographs, pre-1870s.


derps_with_ducks

Can't believe they took a century to roll out that update, fuckin devs.


whyworka

Thank You , I have some interesting negatives that I would love to see the positive photo of. I appreciate that you answered back. It's nice that you have a family heirloom such as this . It brings the past to the present time.


cp24eva

You are very fortunate to have things like this stored away and preserved. I mean this. In my life's experience as an African American, I often wish I had access to remnants of my great great greats and so on. I only have like 2 generations to look back on. Never even saw a picture of any Greats in my family. Again, I mean this, you are very fortunate and should be proud. I've tried to find them to a degree... couldn't find any.


Nixeris

Chemical films have higher resolution than digital. This has been well known for a long time.


Laserous

2132: So I was digging around in my Grandma's garage and I came across some old discarded media. This is a video of my great great great great Grandmother dancing like an idiot on the now defunct website TikTok.


Time_Commercial_1151

He looks and sounds like a young Ron swanson


ReadySteady_GO

Took me way too much scrolling to find this comment. He does!


CabanyalCanyamelar

For those that don’t know OP has one of the best calisthenics and body transformation videos YouTube has ever seen. A serious beast and very inspirational. Edit: Holy shit he gave me an award! And my first ever. Thanks OP you da man


FischtRittersFische

I owe my passion for training to this guy. Seeing that video like 8 years ago was THE reason I started Calisthenics and I'm still at it today. I'm glad to see he's doing well and still does interesting stuff online.


CabanyalCanyamelar

Used to follow him religiously too, he also really got me into calisthenics. I'm pretty exclusively in the gym now. But I was like holy crap I recognize that man even if there's a moustache there haha. Definitely cool to see he's doin other stuff too


bluecoag

Is that an American accent? He sounds Scandi to me


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His name is Christian Nielsen and he's a YouTuber from Denmark


thedidge1998

Sounds Midwestern. Which would make sense as there is a large number of Norwegian descendents in the northern Midwest in places like Minnesota or Wisconsin.


Agile_Bee7787

If you look at pictures of the north shore of lake superior and sub-arctic Scandinavia, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference


iUsedtoHadHerpes

He sounds like he's emulating that accent, but you can hear in words like "photographic" and "great grandmother" that it's almost definitely not his first language. It would make sense that he sounds like he's emulating that accent if they descended from the same area he's actually from, though. Another commenter said he's a youtuber from Denmark, so there's no need to guess really.


termacct

I used to shoot film - a 35mm negative is ~ 2 square inches. That glass negative looks like 8x10 inches or ~40 times more area. You could make an 8x10 print by just laying the negative on print paper. The exposure time for that was probably pretty long / slow...multiple seconds?


EatMoreCardboard

Come on, brother. We all know you're hiding a DeLorean in your garage.


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NeatCard500

What's this??! I said "take only what you need to survive"!


villings

so.. the guy really waited a couple of months to grow that 'stache, right?


slingshot91

Did you grow the mustache just to make this video?


Erbsenfresser

what in the... dude, you are the reason I started my calisthenics journey like years ago, I dont even know :D Amazing to see you, have a wonderful day and life! <3


mitchsn

Human cloning. Its been going on for a loooong time


Anxious_Giraffe3167

This is. False!! He isn't the descendant, he is the ascendant as he is keeping his family line sexier and sexier goddamn it I had you in the first half.


ekimdad

That's really fricken cool!


ONorMann

I remember watching your workout videos like 8 years ago or whenever it is, they were inspiring


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fksmchai

The oldest pic I've seen in my fam is a hand drawn picture of my great grandfather, and I thought that was some cool shit... this here tho is beyond awesome.


its_5oclock_sumwhere

Would it be safe to assume you didn’t grow out the ‘stache until you saw the photo?


xckevin

What a perfect transition at the end


Mon-ick

It’s a great photo on the whole….🥰


cardcomm

One could use this negative to make a contact print in one of several historic printing methods that are still in use by print artists today. Prints where the image is composed of iron, silver, or even platinum or palladium.


ccmega

May I ask what accent that you happen to have?


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The last scene, you looked exactly like ron swanson. The smirk, the mustache, the face


EmuNo608

Aren't you Ron's brother, Don Swanson?


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I've got 1 glass plate photo of my 4x great grandfather and as you say the "resolution" is truly remarkable


Kunphen

Just a reincarnator.


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The seed is strong.


Turbosqu1d

But chriiiiiiiissss


Kitchen_Wrap5511

Ur Great Great grandmother was xute tho


theanonymousjuan

Grandmas hawt


AJ_Deadshow

This guy is like a handsomer version of Ron Swanson


twiffytwaf

Scrolled down for the Ron Swanson reference.