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Originally Posted by benjulmag
Three questions:
1. Would the extremely slight variation in the negatives create the desired 3-D effect?
2. Is it reasonably plausible that the photographic process would generate negatives that vary so much in resolution?
3. Why would the studio select the clearly inferior negative to print the CdV?
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1) If you look back at post 298, just to the right of Dickie Pearce's head (he is 3rd from left), you can see that in one photo the background panel line clearly misses his head, but in the other it touches his head. I am not a photographic expert, but I don't know what what kind of negative variation could cause that. That difference is completely consistent with what one would see with a stereo pair.
2) Really I don't know. I am not sure if the apparent lo-res of the scan of the Saco River item is due to the fading (loss of contrast). I would not try to argue it either way.
3) No reason I can think of.