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Re: Name that Fiearm
[FONT=Times New Roman]It's interesting to note he's wearing his cap pouch on the left rather than the right.
Early photographic images (daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, ferrotypes & others) were not printed off of negatives. Ihe images were, if you will, mirror images that were chemically "frozen" onto the sensitized plate. Thus if you imagine that you are this fellow standing in front of a mirror, that is exactly how you would look if your cap pouch was on the right.
Many images, when they are reproduced for publication, are reversed... otherwise all of those left-handed Springfields would be driving people like us crazy. :)
I am also certain that there was a process for making non-mirror-mage images. I have seen quite a few original Gold Rush Dags of street scenes in the flesh and the signage is not reversed. I haven't a clue as to how they did it exactly, but they must have used a mirror (Gee, I figured that much out all by myself!)
Dave Peebles
P.S. This is my first post here and I hope all of this HTML code disappears in the final product
[FONT=Times New Roman]It's interesting to note he's wearing his cap pouch on the left rather than the right.
Early photographic images (daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, ferrotypes & others) were not printed off of negatives. Ihe images were, if you will, mirror images that were chemically "frozen" onto the sensitized plate. Thus if you imagine that you are this fellow standing in front of a mirror, that is exactly how you would look if your cap pouch was on the right.
Many images, when they are reproduced for publication, are reversed... otherwise all of those left-handed Springfields would be driving people like us crazy. :)
I am also certain that there was a process for making non-mirror-mage images. I have seen quite a few original Gold Rush Dags of street scenes in the flesh and the signage is not reversed. I haven't a clue as to how they did it exactly, but they must have used a mirror (Gee, I figured that much out all by myself!)
Dave Peebles
P.S. This is my first post here and I hope all of this HTML code disappears in the final product
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