Glass Plate Pinhole Camera Records Sun’s Path Over a Year
Astrophotographer Ian Griffin captured this unusual photo of a solar analemma that charts the Sun's path over a year using a pinhole camera with a 4x5 glass plate inside.
Developing 120-Year-Old Cat Photos Found in a Family Time Capsule
YouTuber Mathieu Stern recently discovered a 'time capsule' in the basement of his old family home. The box—dating from about the year 1900, by Stern's estimation—contained two glass plate negatives, which he decided to try and develop using one of the oldest photographic printing methods in existence: the Cyanotype.
Colorizing an 1880 Glass Plate with a Neural Network and Photoshop
Accurately colorizing a photo usually takes hours upon hours of research followed by the same in Photoshop. But now, thanks to fancy new neural network technology, you can do an amazing job in no time.