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Beautiful, but it's too bad that the digital reproductions are so noisy.
by jcoder 14y ago
Beautiful, but it's too bad that the digital reproductions are so noisy.
- Turing_Machine 14y agoIf you're talking about what I think you're talking about, it's not digital noise. It's an artifact of the Autochrome process. The images are made with colored grains of potato starch. It's a fascinating process that (to my knowledge) has never been successfully reproduced in modern times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome
- jcoder 14y agoThat's really interesting---I assumed it was just really bad JPEG compression!