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File:Raising a flag over the Reichstag.jpg, featured[edit]

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Raising a flag over the Reichstag
Destructive digital processing with excessive contrasts, harsh blacks and whites and a significant loss of nuances in the grays. See the difference with the original, or these online versions.  Question Where is the source offering this resolution? -- Basile Morin (talk) 05:19, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I mean, File:Raising a flag over the Reichstag - Restoration.jpg exists. Adam Cuerden (talk) 14:28, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Raising a flag over the Reichstag

  •  Comment regarding the technical quality. I understand your reservations, but please consider also (a) the turbulent situation in which this photo was taken and (b) the limits of the camera used for this shot. Yevgeny Khaldei probably used one of the reporter cameras of that time, similar to the one you see him holding in the photo in the Wikipedia article. These were quite simple cameras, built more for robustness than for image quality. American war reporters used similar models, and some years ago I had the opportunity to play a bit with a well-preserved original American reporter camera from WW II times. It was really very difficult to take decent shots with it, much more difficult than with later film cameras (or with some old Leicas – these are more precise, too). The lens was rather simple (i.e. full of optical aberrations of any kind), it was almost impossible to focus precisely, etc. In the end I can only admire that people took decent photos which such clumsy cameras. Now I doubt that Russian war reporter cameras were much better than that American camera. Considering this I perceive the quality of this and similar photos rather leniently. --Aristeas (talk) 18:34, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Why different from other pictures taken in the same conditions, at the same period?
FP should be evaluated on their quality, in addition to the wow factor. There are too many striking historical images to promote them all, in my opinion -- Basile Morin (talk) 22:48, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 12 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--Aristeas (talk) 11:43, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Historical#1940-1949
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