On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 13:33:20 -0500, Erinnerungen wrote:
> That's about all the photos, for now.
>
I concur with the others that the posting is valuable, but
there is a serious shortcoming to the effort.
The images are TOO SMALL. The average dimension is roughly
700x700 which makes each of them about as impressive as a
postage stamp. I am sorry to say, but this collection verges
on being totally useless.
A subject of such vast import deserves to be presented in a format
of at least 2500x2500 resolution. Only with much larger images can
all of the tremendous detail become blazingly discernible.
Only with much greater resolution can these historical scenes
become brilliantly alive.
One may argue that significantly lager images would cause storage
difficulties. This may be true if one still uses floppy disks, but
with current hard drives and/or blu-ray optical disks the storage
issue is meaningless. At 2500x2500 resolution and JPEG compression
the entire collection could be stored in 4-5 gigabytes, which should
be no problem for anyone.
The original photos should have been scanned at 600 dpi and posted
at 2500x2500 pixels. Who wants to view history from afar through
a soda straw when total immersion is quite technically feasible?
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