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Post by firewood on Jan 4, 2024 0:44:25 GMT
I've done it more than once - taken a great photo of a project and later notice something's off. In the digital age of course, we have no such problems. We can delete, re-touch, re-take with a whole arsenal of digital tools, right? Right??  Exhibit A: Lionel's Ready-To-Play Hogwarts Set - check out the driving wheels on the front of my set box.  Dave |
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Post by harborbelt70 on Jan 4, 2024 0:50:50 GMT
I'd say that's terrible but it's understandable. A number of photos I've posted here are of cars/engines actually off the rails or showing things like spun traction tires.
No, the camera does not lie and a side effect of the digital age is that defects you did not notice when taking the picture are recorded for eternity . . .
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Jan 4, 2024 0:52:10 GMT
I've done it more than once - taken a great photo of a project and later notice something's off. In the digital age of course, we have no such problems. We can delete, re-touch, re-take with a whole arsenal of digital tools, right? Right?? Exhibit A: Lionel's Ready-To-Play Hogwarts Set - check out the driving wheels on the front of my set box. What? My postwar Marx engines often look just like that, just before they run off the rails . . . 
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Post by firewood on Jan 4, 2024 1:42:43 GMT
I'd say that's terrible but it's understandable. A number of photos I've posted here are of cars/engines actually off the rails or showing things like spun traction tires.
No, the camera does not lie and a side effect of the digital age is that defects you did not notice when taking the picture are recorded for eternity . . . I figure I have the super-rare flawed box and we all know how much empty train boxes go for these days - it must be worth thousands!.....unless there's another 4,000,000 of 'em out there.   I never noticed it myself until I put the set around the Christmas tree, and it arrived as a gift the previous year! Dave
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Post by af3020 on Jan 4, 2024 2:26:10 GMT
I don't know about lying but it has been known to record some rather gruesome sights - this passenger car for example.  To be fair - it was known to have been a mistake when it was made so it was sent off to the American Flyer company store where it was marked and "Sold as Shopworn". The car has seen run time so it is obvious someone decided it was worth purchasing. (By the way - the thread about the spelling error - "Yueltide" doesn't hold a candle to this car).  |
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Post by g3750 on Jan 7, 2024 21:00:57 GMT
I don't see the camera and its brutal relationship with the truth as a negative.
It helps me get things right.
And it serves as a valuable record of what I'm doing. I can't tell you how many times I've gone back to my in-progress photos and found out some piece of needed information (that I didn't write down or forgot).
And if you are modeling from the prototype (or trying to), then photographs are your friends.
George
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Post by firewood on Jan 10, 2024 0:25:34 GMT
Well said. I like to photograph my projects and check - missed items or needed improvements jump right out in the narrowed viewpoint.
Dave
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