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Originally Posted by Hankphenom
The "ultimate quest in vintage photography" can be different for different collectors. "Type I"s, greatest images, greatest events, greatest photographers, etc. I don't have an issue with anything anyone chooses to collect, it's all great. I just don't like to see someone restricting their collecting based on a misinterpretation of a commonly used classification system, which I've seen happen. "Type I"s can be great photographs, but they're not the only great photographs.
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I completely agree and apologize if I may have misunderstood to some extent the underlying basis of your initial comments. For example, because of the rarity of true Type 1 photos a given image for a given event by a given photographer may simply not exist in that format. In those cases I would still be extremely happy to acquire the image as a Type 2, 3, or 4.
But I think you still get my main point, i.e., in terms of difficulty the search for " the greatest images of the greatest events by the greatest photographers" in a Type 1 format is, based on the collecting interests of each individual, still the ultimate quest in vintage photography.