While searching for something different, I came across this WW 1 images on Alamy site.
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“Mephisto” is now at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. During my visit there in … 1990 
… I was able to touch it 
Lucky Guy!
Not a WWI guy but some very nice and interesting photos. 
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Great post! It always amazes me when photos taken over 100 years ago look so crisp.
Cameras were well-made and expensive scientific instruments in those days.
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I have my Dad’s old twin lens reflex camera. It’s at least 90 years old. The pictures it took were extremely sharp.
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Sharpness of the early cameras was never an issue, It is just that Kodak durning the 60s, 70s and 80s spent a lot of advertising dollars to convince the buying public that the “new” (cheap) Instamatic, 35mm and 16mm film based cameras and later the even smaller “disk” cameras were the best the public had a right to expect.
This advertising program taught an entire generation that they had to buy an expensive camera if they were to expect “good” pictures.
Shot August 1918:
Photo found in the University of Kentucky Archives
Series 1 Liberty Trucks
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