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Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)

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Re: Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)

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Post by WalterBright »

jorgesborges wrote: post #5
Normille wrote: post #2

Great find. Thanks for posting. I love it when photos from this era occasionally emerge showing people acting naturally. We're so used to seeing the vast majority of Victorian photographs showing dour-faced people sitting or standing stiffly to attention, that it's sometimes difficult to believe they had human emotions, just like us.

It’s great. I also love video footage from that era as well, capturing the ordinary bustle of the streets. It’s fun when it’s local and you can point to familiar places. One of my favourites is Victoria and Vancouver BC around 1900[0]. [0] https://youtu.be/Jp1qWV5OZec

Would be fun to film the same route today, and show them side by side.

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Post by WalterBright »

jamiek88 wrote: post #9
dragontamer wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The change in "hat culture" is pretty incredible though. That's a LOT of hats!

As a balding man with a round head I wish hats other than Baseball caps were acceptable.

As a balding man, I wear an Aussie outback hat on the advice of my dermatologist. Being older, I no longer care about hat fashion.

Though I discovered that Outback hat makes walking in the Seattle rain quite pleasant!

Oh, and nobody cares what you wear on your head.

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Post by robbintt »

dorkwood wrote: post #16

The last photo of the man being affectionate with his young daughter is surprising to me. All my life, I've thought that men born before 1950, like my father, just didn't do that sort of thing. And yet here is a man born a hundred years earlier doing just that.

I believe that people have been exactly like us for tens or hundreds of generations.

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Post by ruined »

near as i can tell, he used a stirn concealed vest camera.

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Stirn_Concealed_Vest_Camera

round film plate. no cassette, just round emulsified glass. six-exposure 14cm or four-exposure 17cm depending on model. exposure is allegedly adjustable somehow, but i'm not sure of the mechanism. plate loads into an internal frame with masks, advanced by the center dial, not sure how masks align.

many more of his photos and some images of the camera and exposed plates here

https://www.exibartstreet.com/news/19th-century-street-photo...

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

dorkwood wrote: post #16

The last photo of the man being affectionate with his young daughter is surprising to me. All my life, I've thought that men born before 1950, like my father, just didn't do that sort of thing. And yet here is a man born a hundred years earlier doing just that.

That’s remarkable comment that really highlights for me how different everyone’s experience can be. My father was born in the early 40s and was apparently nothing like your father.

But those two photos are definitely the best for me.

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Post by firecall »

WalterBright wrote: post #22
jamiek88 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a balding man with a round head I wish hats other than Baseball caps were acceptable.

As a balding man, I wear an Aussie outback hat on the advice of my dermatologist. Being older, I no longer care about hat fashion. Though I discovered that Outback hat makes walking in the Seattle rain quite pleasant! Oh, and nobody cares what you wear on your head.

In Australia it's generally totally normal to wear a random hat because of the sun!

Also carrying Sun Umbrellas is totally fine as well!

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

KMnO4 wrote: post #11
jorgesborges wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s great. I also love video footage from that era as well, capturing the ordinary bustle of the streets. It’s fun when it’s local and you can point to familiar places. One of my favourites is Victoria and Vancouver BC around 1900[0]. [0] https://youtu.be/Jp1qWV5OZec

Here’s one from 1895, upscaled to 4k60 and colourized: https://youtu.be/EqbOhqXHL7E

The original seems to no longer be on YouTube; do you have a copy of a non-AI-hallucinated version?

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Post by geocrasher »

WalterBright wrote: post #22
jamiek88 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a balding man with a round head I wish hats other than Baseball caps were acceptable.

As a balding man, I wear an Aussie outback hat on the advice of my dermatologist. Being older, I no longer care about hat fashion. Though I discovered that Outback hat makes walking in the Seattle rain quite pleasant! Oh, and nobody cares what you wear on your head.

I moved the PNW in 2012 and to deal with the incessant rain, my wife bought me a brown fedora. Nobody wears brown fedora's anymore. But I do, and you'd be shocked at the number of compliments I've received ("Nice hat!" or "I like your hat!") and the number of conversations it's started.

Wear hats. Hats are cool.

Re: Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

OJFord wrote: post #13
jamiek88 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a balding man with a round head I wish hats other than Baseball caps were acceptable.

As nothing in particular I wish braces were acceptable! They make so much more sense than tightening a belt laterally to defy gravity by friction.

If you want to wear them, wear them! You'll get odd looks much less than you think.
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