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Originally Posted by Don Hoey
Very good Adey.
Your comment on contact printing from large negatives is very relevant to the sharpness/resolution issue. Professionals, or at least those that could afford it would be using 10" x 8" or larger. Amateurs really got involved with the advent of roll film in its various sizes that did require some enlargement. I have looked through a lot of my grandparents images from the early 1900's and they appear to be contact printed from 6 x 6 or 6 x 9 cm.
Don
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The shot I used, above, was already processed from a jpeg, having been taken on my Sony compact camera, so perhaps a RAW-TIFF file without any sharpening at all might be a better starting point.
I've got a lot of old family snapshots from the '30s through to the '60s taken with either a Box Brownie or a basic Ensign folding camera and the 6x9(ish) contact prints look fine but as soon as you get them enlarged the limitations are there to see!