World's Tiniest Photographs

darkosaric

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• Dec 5, 2014

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Wow, first time I see this:

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/secrets-of-the-worlds-tiniest-photographs/

 

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• Dec 5, 2014

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That is just amazing. The skills that existed in the past have been totally lost over time. It's like the safelight I bought recently that was made in the late 1800's, and is powered by a candle! Who knew?

 

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• Dec 5, 2014

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I don't think making candles is a lost skill is it ?

 

Dan Fromm

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• Dec 5, 2014

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I didn't know that making reductions was a lost art. Demand for new Stanhopes seems to have gone away, but I could well be measuring incorrectly.

 

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In comparison to the relatively huge Stanhope images, microdot film images the size of a typewriter's period were used many decades ago to sneak secret information past censors. They could replace a dot in the typescript.