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   💜 AdoraBeryl 🩷 (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 08:11:37 JST 💜 AdoraBeryl 🩷

   This photo of a random Chinese guy from 1901 will never not be amusing to me. While just every photo from the west was of a stern faced family looking serious for the occasion, then there's this guy look so excited about a bowl of plain white rice.

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     deltelta (deltelta@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 08:21:02 JST deltelta

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     @Rasp Considering sensitivity of the dry plates at the time, he would have had to remain motionless in this position for about two minutes

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     💜 AdoraBeryl 🩷 (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 08:21:47 JST 💜 AdoraBeryl 🩷

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     • Transbian_Arsonists (Seraphine)

     @Transbian_Arsonists It was a bit of both, photos were still being treated like getting a portrait painted, something for future generations so they know what their ancestors looked like or whatever.

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     Transbian_Arsonists (Seraphine) (transbian_arsonists@catwithaclari.net)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 08:21:48 JST Transbian_Arsonists (Seraphine)

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     @Rasp@raru.re I love this photo, but also wasnt the reason why western people used serious photos that you had to hold your pose for quite a while and so it was more comfortable than forcing a smile for minutes, which also means this guy was just sitting here like this for multiple minuites,,,,,
     
     - posted by Seraphine

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     💜 AdoraBeryl 🩷 (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 08:35:53 JST 💜 AdoraBeryl 🩷

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     Think about it from the perspective of someone who lived around that time. The family portrait was previously something that took hours and hours of an artist working away while you and your family just sat there,.

     It was HIGHLY cost prohibitive and a symbol of serious wealth.

     the photograph made this process easier, faster, and cheaper. So the lower income families who could suddenly afford it emulated the style of the family portrait. Also while it was cheaper, it was still really expensive and so the whole family probably only took one.

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     Transbian_Arsonists (Seraphine) (transbian_arsonists@catwithaclari.net)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 08:49:56 JST Transbian_Arsonists (Seraphine)

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     @Rasp@raru.re :silvervale_noted:
     
     - posted by Seraphine

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     💜 AdoraBeryl 🩷 (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 09:22:49 JST 💜 AdoraBeryl 🩷

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     • deltelta

     @deltelta By the 1860s exposure time was down to seconds.

     Example: the Brownie by kodak from the year before 1900.

     Shudder speed: 1/40th of a second.

     If he had to hold that pose for two minutes they were using an OLD camera

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     💜 AdoraBeryl 🩷 (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 10:08:48 JST 💜 AdoraBeryl 🩷

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     EDIT: for anyone saying he would have had to hold this pose for at least 2 minutes, That is highly unlikely. Exposure time was down to seconds if not fractions of seconds at this point.

     They were already on the the cusp of MAKING MOVIES. The Great Train Robbery was filmed in 1903 and it sure as heck did NOT take two minutes to capture each of those frames.

     The year BEFORE this photo was taken (1900) Kodak released a camera for children that had a shutter speed of 1/40th of a second.

     Fast Shudders had been a thing for about a decade by this point.

     I've added another photo from the same collection (possibly a using different camera) of a person ACTIVELY DANCING, there is a blur but there is no two minutes of dancing blur

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     deltelta (deltelta@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 13:07:25 JST deltelta

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     @Rasp I looked into your point and found that Wratten dry plates achieved ISO 80 in 1882. It certainly wasn't 2 minutes.

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     deltelta (deltelta@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 18:06:31 JST deltelta

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     @Rasp I'm sorry for you correcting my incorrect post. Even on a cloudy day, if you have a dry plate with ISO 80 sensitivity, an exposure of 1/30 to 1/60 seconds with an f8 lens is sufficient.

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     💜 AdoraBeryl 🩷 (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 22:49:27 JST 💜 AdoraBeryl 🩷

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     @deltelta nah don't worry about it I went overboard with the research