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...EDIT... Agreed a better scan would help but if original isn't good it can't really improve what I haven't got.
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Hello from NZ.
I fail to under stand this comment. My question is do you really know what you have got?
I have learnt that a photo contains far more detail than we first think, good or poor quality. I have a photo that includes my father in front of a 1900's NZ villa taken c1924. It's had a hard life with some sun exposure fading, and fly spots. But it is an only photo of that period that I have, so when scanners became available I scanned it in jpg format. It was post card size and I printed it out for family across an A4 sheet of paper, in an article for a reunion, so that is quite an enlargement and every one was pleased. But no one spotted it's secret.
Can not remember the fixed resolution of our first scanner, but it was not all that high. [Dial up days] Years later I was asked for a copy to be emailed. As it was easier to rescan and send than to hunt out the old filed [& format] copy, I rescanned at 600dpi [the highest option] on our newest scanner, and with broad band the file size was not too great to email.
I then dug out the original article and replaced the old jpg image photo, with the higher resolution photo, which this time I also had over printed with a small notation of approximate date and who's villa it was.
Upon looking at this revised article, I thought I could see something on a pane of window glass, so I then took the image and blew it up, as much as I could, to discover the old granny was peering through the curtains, and out of the window at her Grand Kids.
The detail was not great, but good enough to discern the face outline of an elderly person from the room that hosted the Granny. She had just turned 90 and died not much later.
So that photo held a secret for well over 80 years.
I believe at a higher resolution your photo would also have revealed more detail.
- Alan.
