High-quality black-and-white photographs of large old machines and tools

**bruce.desertrat** · Feb 15, 2021, 09:56 AM

Tried my usual tricks (contrast, sharpening, messing with the levels), just not enough pixels back there on the nameplate

High-quality black-and-white photographs of large old machines and tools-1904_mckees_rocks_slotter_fullsize.jpg

. We're gonna need a CSI "Enhance" magic tool to see this one :-)

**marksbug** · Feb 15, 2021, 12:06 PM

I think .... or russian and it's also in reverse.....

**bruce.desertrat** · Feb 15, 2021, 12:40 PM

I thought that for a moment, but the chalk calculations on the pillar next to the slotter indicated that the negative wasn't reversed...I just think that the angle and lighting prevented the existing scan to properly show those details.

**Toolmaker51** · Feb 15, 2021, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by marksbug

I think .... or russian and it's also in reverse.....

Russian? In reverse? How would we tell?

Was a long time before pixels could better represent detail than high quality film stock.

**marksbug** · Feb 16, 2021, 12:47 PM

how wood we tell?? well I reckon the vodka bottle would still be full...

**jdurand** · Feb 16, 2021, 05:13 PM

Pretty good chance it's Russian if you see фжяьи and such letters, but a lot is shared with Greek due to good old Saint Cyril.

**marksbug** · Feb 16, 2021, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by jdurand

Pretty good chance it's Russian if you see фжяьи and such letters, but a lot is shared with Greek due to good old Saint Cyril.

hmm that gives me an idea!!!

Oak island and the 90 foot stone could of been placed by the russians back in 1202...

**jdurand** · Feb 16, 2021, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by marksbug

hmm that gives me an idea!!!

Oak island and the 90 foot stone could of been placed by the russians back in 1202...

1202 would have been Kievan Rus or Feudal Rus, the first version of Russia didn't come about until the 1500s. More than you wanted to know.

Oh, and for Western Politicians and other uninformed people, the Soviet Union СССР (SSSR) ended in the early 1990s...it no longer exists. What is there now is the Russian Federation. Not quite the same animal.

**IntheGroove** · Feb 16, 2021, 05:16 PM

It's all Greek to me...

**marksbug** · Feb 16, 2021, 06:57 PM

crap when did my wife get on hear?

just kidding.

Ive gotten some nice stuff from russia..well somewhere over there off flebay some nice internal mics like new from about 2mm up to 10mm.I wish i could afford to get more from that guy.he has all kinds of stuff. I also got some american Wix fuel filters...but when they arived..made in Russia...Wix assured me they were made to the same std's.. but also said those are not to be sold in the USA..I got all warm and fuzzy feeling from that. I would think they were at least better than the china stuff. and possibly better than the made in usa stuff.