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Solved: A Decades-Old Ansel Adams Mystery
- foobar1962 9y ago>...the potential location—a spot on the road about eight miles from the nearest ranger station... Lols to "a spot on the road" -- large format gear is not pleasant to carry around.
- patrickg_zill 9y agoWhen younger, Adams did hike with large format cameras. But later he built a platform on the top of his station wagon and used that.
- lokopodium 9y agoA 8x10 camera weighs about 4kg. Adams used smaller formats most of the time, everything he'd need would be under 6-8 kg. I imagine someone like him would not settle for an inferior viewpoint with a easy hike as an alternative.
- lokopodium 9y agoNever forget: how to steal a flag (https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-good-thing-pulls-off-the-heist-of-the-century1 https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-g...).
- jzl 9y agoIf you enjoyed this bit of photo sleuthing then I highly recommend film director Errol Morris' incredible tale of sleuthing regarding a photo from the 1850's (!) taken during the Crimean War: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg-part-one/ https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/which-came-...