Old Tintype of winchester lever.
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Old Tintype of winchester lever.
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Re: Old Tintype of winchester lever.
Where'd you get that photo? That was me when I was younger.
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Re: Old Tintype of winchester lever.
It must have quite a fun way of making a living, taking pictures of dudes trying to look like they're armed and ready for life on the frontier.
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Re: Old Tintype of winchester lever.
I know that the guys in those old photos were as tough as ropes, but why do they always look so small and thin through the shoulders?
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Re: Old Tintype of winchester lever.
Bogie35, the average was much smaller then than today. If you were 6' 4" you were considered a giant. The average height was around 5' 5" or 5' 6".
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Re: Old Tintype of winchester lever.
Something about that rifle doesn't look right. Where's the loading gate?
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Re: Old Tintype of winchester lever.
That appears to be a winchester 66. The predicesser to it is the hennry. The hennry didnt have a loading gate nor the wood forearm. However, I am not absolutely positive that some towards the end of the run didnt have the forearm.
I am only 68, still I remember in primer school getting our pictures taken. I remember braceing my shoulders up to pose and the old photogifer pushing my shoulders down forceably saying it made me look more natural. Also you never see them smile like a jackass do you? I was working in texas in 1962 and staying at a old dumpy hotel. A old photographer came, set up a makeshift studio with hanging sheets and talked me into poseing. I thought I looked soft and dorkey in the picture and didnt like it. After my mother died I found the picture, and no, I am not going to scan that one.
Here is a old gag one of my ex-wife, daughter and me taken in one of those old time studios in virginnia city, nevada many years ago. Just for fun. (my mustach was real)
I am only 68, still I remember in primer school getting our pictures taken. I remember braceing my shoulders up to pose and the old photogifer pushing my shoulders down forceably saying it made me look more natural. Also you never see them smile like a jackass do you? I was working in texas in 1962 and staying at a old dumpy hotel. A old photographer came, set up a makeshift studio with hanging sheets and talked me into poseing. I thought I looked soft and dorkey in the picture and didnt like it. After my mother died I found the picture, and no, I am not going to scan that one.
Here is a old gag one of my ex-wife, daughter and me taken in one of those old time studios in virginnia city, nevada many years ago. Just for fun. (my mustach was real)
Re: Old Tintype of winchester lever.
That particular picture is reversed, unless he's wearing a women's jacket.
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Re: Old Tintype of winchester lever.
Lots of photos taken with the old view cameras come out reversed. Right-handed gunslingers look like their holsters are reversed for example. Maybe the photographer had to do something "special" to make them be properly oriented. If you've looked through those cameras you've probably noticed that the subjects also are inverted. Someone knowledgeable will probably clear this up; my last class in the physics of optics was taken with Galileo.
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Re: Old Tintype of winchester lever.
Having had some experience using view cameras, they don't take horizontally reversed photos, but when looking at the focusing screen in the camera back the image is upside down. So, the picture taken is actually upside down, but the negative is printed right side up. In the case of a tintype there is no negative. The developed image is positive like a slide.
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Re: Old Tintype of winchester lever.
Bill,
Cool Picture of you and the family.
You have definetly got that hard core look going on(Dont mess with me/or my family look)
Kinda of a cross look between actors William Smith/Jack Palance.(in their younger days)
You still probably can kick our whipper snappers butts
Also thats a nice old photo--rangerider7
Cool Picture of you and the family.
You have definetly got that hard core look going on(Dont mess with me/or my family look)
Kinda of a cross look between actors William Smith/Jack Palance.(in their younger days)
You still probably can kick our whipper snappers butts
Also thats a nice old photo--rangerider7
Re: Old Tintype of winchester lever.
I was born too late! I would have been "normal" back then!rangerider7 wrote:Bogie35, the average was much smaller then than today. If you were 6' 4" you were considered a giant. The average height was around 5' 5" or 5' 6".
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Re: Old Tintype of winchester lever.
Back then, there wasn't really a standard, since most clothes were home made.Gun Smith wrote:That particular picture is reversed, unless he's wearing a women's jacket.
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