Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Akeley Motion Picture Camera

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Original – Akeley Motion Picture Camera, New York, 1922, by Paul Strand

Support as nominator – Yann (talk) 10:44, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 12:09, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Visual information not readily intelligible to general readers/viewers. – Sca (talk) 12:23, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. I see banding and blocking in the darker areas and the whole image is kind of grainy. Moonreach (talk) 14:44, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is the best copy available on the Internet. Seeing the price of a print, I don't think a contributor could get one and scan it. Yann (talk) 15:48, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Honestly, I don't really like it as an image, either. I can't tell what I'm looking at; were this an image intended to illustrate the camera, rather than a piece of art in its own right, I would call it downright bad. That's just my personal taste, which of course isn't a criterion, but it does make me less willing to overlook technical shortcomings, which are. Moonreach (talk) 17:21, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I'm seeing a light patch on the left side of the image that is likely not in the original print. I agree that the technical quality is lacking; Christie's gives high resolution scans, but they save them at a high compression ratio, resulting in JPG artefacting (for example, I think File:Huang Shaoqiang - Farewell.jpg is an excellent example of the artist's work, but there are a few compression issues. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:05, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – It would be nice if the article page, file page, or image caption(s) said what type of camera this is. Here are the camera info links: [1] [2]. Perhaps the image caption(s) could say the photo is of the interior chamber of the camera. As Chris said, the original upload's file size is somewhat small, 177KB. Bammesk (talk) 02:37, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - visible JPEG artifacting. MER-C 10:13, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:06, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]