Cincinnati Waterfront Panorama Daguerreotype (1848), Plate 4, Older Encoding

NOTE: this video has been superseded by a less noisy one. That less noisy video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbwlJNjMXMw
Daguerreotypes, the first photographic and imaging process started in 1839, have an incredible level of detail. This is plate 4 of the Cincinnati Waterfront Panorama Daguerreotype consisting of 8 plates, taken by Charles Fontayne and William S. Porter in 1848. The plate, property of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton Counties, was imaged in tiles using a stereomicroscope (Zeiss StereoDiscovery.V12) at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film, Kay Whitmore Conservation Center, in Rochester, NY. A data-set containing high-resolution images of this panorama is described in Tang et al.'s paper "Digital Analysis and Restoration of Daguerreotypes" (2010) in SPIE Electronic Imaging . This paper also describes preliminary digital annotation and restoration work done by computer vision researchers at the University of Rochester.

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[Thermionman1970]

Wonderful! Amazing!................I wonder what ever happened to that lath factory?