120-year-old secret Sydney snapshots go on show.

[Keith]

Early candid street photography?

LINK 🙂

 

[daveleo]

Thanks, Keith.

Aside: I'm surprised not to see a lot of motion blur in those pictures.

 

[Keith]

Thanks, Keith.

Aside: I'm surprised not to see a lot of motion blur in those pictures.

Me too ... but we are talking Australian light here! 😛

 

[sevo]

Sunny sixteen is the same everywhere, barely one stop less even if you cross the polar circle. Legs and cartwheels look like exposures somewhere around 1/4-1/8s, which is feasible with then current film (around ISO 1) and "landscape" lenses (not faster than f/6.8).

 

[x-ray]

By 1880 dry plates were in use. Exposures were short enough to handhold a camera.

 

[AzzA]

Thanks for the heads up, I didn't know about this. Going to have to check it out.

 

[lynnb]

thanks Keith, this was on the ABC news as well. I'll look forward to seeing it!

 

[dave lackey]

Keith, I can always count on you to bring up some great vintage photos. The bicycle race photos you posted years ago remain my favorites, blur and all! These are very cool without the blur!

 

[jloden]

That is really neat, and very interesting photos!

My favorite part is the description where it notes that at the time the advent of portable, handheld cameras caused a public debate over privacy... fascinating to see that so little has changed in 130 years 😀

 

[KRaZiGLiTcH]

very cool to see how much sydney has changed.

 

[oltimer]

Thanks Kieth for the old shots posting. Now if you guys from Australia who are going to have a lunar eclipse on Friday; those shots would be interesting too?