Metadata for RCSPC-COBHAM-Y3018A-019 (RCS Y3018A/19)
| Identifier: | RCSPC-COBHAM-Y3018A-019 |
| Creator: | Thomson, John, 1837-1921, photographer |
| Title: | An aged Cypriote |
| Description: | 84 x 114 mm. Woodburytype. A view showing an aged woman with her arm round a young girl. The portrait is in Thomson's 'Through Cyprus with the camera, in the autumn of 1878' (vol.1, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1879). Thomson's comments give an instructive insight into the difficulties of photography with bulky equipment and long exposures: 'Any attempts to photograph the fleeting expression of sentiment in the human face is almost certain to fail; nevertheless, a chance shot with the camera secured for us the accompanying pleasing picture - one which conveys something of the feelings that crossed the mind of the aged dame as she caressed the pretty little Greek girl who stands by her side' (vol.1, p.18). |
| Date created from: | 1878 |
| Date created to: | 1878 |
| Coverage spatial: | Cyprus (Asia) |
| Contributor: | Cobham, Claude Delaval, 1842-1915 |
| Source: | RCS Y3018A/19 |
| Is part of: | RCS Photograph Collection, Cobham Collection, Y3018A. |
| DCMIType: | Image |
| Medium: | image/jpeg |
| Extent: | 154KB |
| Dimension X: | 449 |
| Dimension Y: | 613 |
| Dimension units: | Pixels |
| Resolution: | 72 dpi |
| Bit depth: | 24 bit |
| Colour space: | Adobe RGB 1998 |
| Compression type: | JPEG |
| Compression ratio: | Quality 9 |
| Camera body: | Mamiya RB |
| Camera back: | Leaf Valeo 11 Digital |
| Lighting: | 1000w Bowens Flash Heads |
| Lens: | Mamiya 50mm f/4.5 Wide Angle Lens |
| ISO: | 25 |
| Aperture: | F/16 |
| ShutterSpeed: | 1/125 |
| Digitised by: | SM. Photography Department. Cambridge University Library. |
| Publisher: | Royal Commonwealth Society Library. Cambridge University Library. University of Cambridge. |
| Rights: | Copyright Cambridge University Library. |
| Date Digitised: | 2003-10-24 |