Ultra high quality WWII photos

Reenactment ftw. Those are some very accurate shots though

Yeah I know, asking myself the same question, I just have a very hard time imagining photography technology was that elaborate back then. The first color photos were taken during the late 19th century, but the colors would have faded away and the precision of the optics was decades away from that kinda quality here.

At the same time I can't see these pictures having been recolored from black and white ones, and if that's the case that's one hell of a good job.

the national archives rescanned a buttload of negatives and put them on the internet. i have a bookmark on my other computer to their flickr account, there are thousands of these, they're quite amazing

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Yeah I know, asking myself the same question, I just have a very hard time imagining photography technology was that elaborate back then. The first color photos were taken during the late 19th century, but the colors would have faded away and the precision of the optics was decades away from that kinda quality here.At the same time I can't see these pictures having been recolored from black and white ones, and if that's the case that's one hell of a good job.

I think they are just photoshopped. Guy probably took a lot of pictures with the same plane on different positions and then mixed them.

But i have to disagree with the optics. Before photo film was used (in smaller more compact cameras) and photos were taken on plates they could contain an incredible amount of details. When i worked in the archives of my home town i saw a shitload of large photos (in size from A4 to A3) from around 1890-1918 that just blew me away. It was really like a view back in time that felt more real then anything that i have seen before. Even the smallest details were crisp and clear. Off course these were in b&w tho.

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