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Pepsi made a clear cola in the early 90's called Crystal Pepsi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Pepsi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Pepsi Here's a
by pud 13y ago
Pepsi made a clear cola in the early 90's called Crystal Pepsi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Pepsi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Pepsi
Here's an old pic of me drinking it. (and eating a turkey leg).
http://i.imgur.com/T1rZc39.jpg http://i.imgur.com/T1rZc39.jpg
- unimpressive 13y agoWhat camera was that photo taken with? The quality is really good. (For the early nineties) Is it a scan of a film camera?
- xuki 13y agoMost likely a scan of a film. You can see small white particles on the photo at full size.
- ygra 13y agoThe dust and other spots imply a scan of a developed photo (not the negative, as the dust would be dark there, not bright). And I'm amazed that people are amazed by photo quality from two decades ago. The resolution of standard 35-mm film was fairly hard to achieve in consumer digital cameras until recently (or maybe it still is, but I guess DSLRs have gone consumer enough by now).
- finnw 13y ago> I'm amazed that people are amazed by photo quality from two decades ago It's partly because the media (especially TV news) deliberately blurs and desaturates pictures to indicate what decade they are from. Which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the film technology of the time. But it is easy to forget that they are doing this and assume that the original photos are really like this. Why would 70s and 80s photos be desaturated more than 60s photos for example. Even for digital media (e.g. youtube) tools like this are popular: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChY8IIc_fv4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChY8IIc_fv4
- omegant 13y agoAre they doing this with tv shows and movies? Sometimes I am amazed to see how blurry some programs from the 80's seem. Even some movies that were shot in 35mm seem blurry. It must be the copy that they have at that tv and not the original roll. If not Idon't know what's happening here. Movies from the 40's seem to have better resolution than more modern ones.
- braxton 13y agoMany TV shows are done from tape masters instead of the 35mm because of the cost of transferring them or that the originals were lost. The tapes vary in quality but a popular format (type-c 1 inch) used from the late 70s to late 90s is similar to DVD. Movies are always stored on 35mm which can be better than a blu-ray if scanned properly.
- wazoox 13y agoMany TV shows from the 80s and 90s were mastered on analog tape (U-Matic or Betacam) with variable quality (250 lines on U-Matic, 350 lines on Betacam SP) but very low by today standards. Furthermore, these sources are often cropped/zoomed/stretched from 4:3 to 16:9, which lowers quality even more.
- haxxorfreak 13y agoMany shows were shot on 35mm film and then telecined to tape for editing and FX. Updating it to HD would mean going back to the camera negatives, figuring out which portions were used in which cuts, scanning it, re-conforming all the cuts and then re-doing all the FX. This was done recently for the first few season of Star Trek: TNG and the difference is amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZQetJVRu0I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZQetJVRu0I
- cclogg 13y agoI think we have a mental image of crappy VHS-esque images and whatnot (from that time)... but if people actually went back and scanned film images with good modern scanners, you'd have some awesome quality stuff. I'd say resolution/sharpness in consumer digital cams has surpassed film, but digital (personal opinion) lacks the tones, depth, highlight-details, and overall 'magic' look of film :)
- logicallee 13y agoYep. Historians are gonna find low-res digial camera pics extremely puzzling, as the quality of photography in their archives goes up and up and up from the invention of photography - then completely plummets when people start using digital comaeras - then plummets to even worse than black and white photography from a hundred years ago, when it comes to shitty phone or web cams that happen to capture something interesting, then slowly climbs up again.
- aangjie 13y agoHaha ... i can imagine entire journals devoted to the field of Photography resolution historical changes and it's socio-cultural origins. :)
- sheri 13y agoI think it was a sacrifice of quality for the convenience of digital cameras. It was a great joy to be able to download and view photos immediately after taking them, rather than send the film to be developed. It was also extremely liberating when I realized I could buy a 1GB card and store photos taken over an entire trip. The freedom to not worry and keep clicking was a huge departure from the experience with standard 24 shot film rolls. I remember trips with my family where we'd spend lots of time just looking for shops selling film.
- redblacktree 13y ago> It was also extremely liberating when I realized [...] I was expecting something much different here. Something to do with the lack of a requirement for someone at the photography lab to view the photos while developing the prints. I know I found that liberating, ifyouknowwhatImean.
- veidr 13y agoSadly, the cycle has looped again, and there is once again someone in the "lab" looking at all your pictures, unless you eschew all modern conveniences like Apple's photo stream or Dropbox's autouploadapalooza. Which is basically, in terms of relative convenience, the equivalent of developing your own film in the 1990s...
- unimpressive 13y ago>And I'm amazed that people are amazed by photo quality from two decades ago. If I was unaware of the quality of film, my first instinct wouldn't have been to ask if the photo was a scan of one.
- 6d0debc071 13y agoHow many good pictures did people see from back then, I wonder. You print something up in a newspaper you're losing a lot of information, and the little palm size prints that shops used to do aren't exactly great either. And then there's the difficulty of producing good pictures. I remember, when I was younger, my father gave me his old 35-mm. No auto focus, manual settings for everything. Even buying the right film required some knowledge of what you were going to be doing. I can see why people would find good pictures from that long ago surprising, it was harder to do - you had to invest time to get good at it. Even if you knew what you were doing from a technical perspective - You could shoot a roll of film and get three or four good pictures. Heh. What I find surprising is how good the really old pictures are. Boer war/Victorian kinda things. Considering what they had to work with at the time.... There's some damn nice stuff out there. If you can get yourself a tour of a photographic archive from a newspaper or something, it's well worth doing ^_^ There's stuff there that's never been digitised just because there's so much of it and high resolution scans on something like a drum scanner are so expensive to do. Edit: > The resolution of standard 35-mm film was fairly hard to achieve in consumer digital cameras until recently To be fair, the obsession some people have with resolution, without regard to like noise (goes up hugely when you cram more pixels - so to speak - into a small frame sensor) and colour balance has probably done significant harm to the evolution of digital cameras. Not that I'm saying you are one of those people, but thought I'd mention it for random readers ^^;
- pud 13y agoPhoto was taken (by my mom) with an old 35mm point-and-shoot. I scanned the print recently, using a modern scanner.
- vickytnz 13y agoProps for the Leave It To Beaver tshirt :)
- nkozyra 13y agoHow did you escape from that dungeon?
- squozzer 13y agoMaybe he's still there. Or he's renting it out to the government to handle Gitmo / deportation overflow.
- swalsh 13y agoI literally never imagined that a top comment on any HN post would consist of a picture from the 90's of a guy who is not Steve Jobs, Wosniack, Bill Gates or any other tech legend simply eating turkey and drinking a pepsi from the time.
- bgruber 13y agoi'm surprised there's no crystal gravy on that turkey leg.
- wellpast 13y agocontext: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/crystal-gravy/n10459/ http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/crystal-gravy/n...
- ChikkaChiChi 13y agoLeave it to Beaver T-Shirt. You're 90s style is something no hipster can ever achieve through cultural osmosis. You are a snowflake. Godspeed, Crystal Pepsi fan. May we all meet again in the glorious, clear syrup'ed Elysium of the afterlife.
- liquidcool 13y agoI immediately thought of that, too, but it didn't really taste like Pepsi. My friends and I thought it tasted more like Sprite with a citrus-y taste. So I was surprised to read that they could make a clear Coke that tasted the same (or maybe it didn't, but was close enough).
- sc00ter 13y agoHave to admit, I was more amused by the fake cinder-block wallpaper!