sorry, no can do (supply better picture). I actually thought the picture had quite reasonable resolution.
Given that the wee fellah to the left of the rear wheel can be seen and those in the fore ground not bleached out i would have said the quality/exposure of the picture was very good and commensurate with professional standards of the time.
mebe technology has spoilt us, expecting everything to be pin sharp.
Thanks.
I agree that the photo clarity is good and I am confident that it was taken by the traveller, not one of the locals, for that reason.
Cheap good automatic digital cameras were not readily available in 1950s, of course.
But when it comes to examining the locals' headgear in fine detail, in order to define the locality, then we have to scrape the barrel for best definition.
It appears that the photo placed on the web site was scanned from a published print.
If so,then could the scanning be done again using a finer setting or a better scanner?
Or even better, take a high res digital photo as a copy, using a tripod or a very steady hand?
I recognise that this photo is a minority taste, but the more one looks at it the more one sees in it.
For example, the failed inner tube spread open like a fish, split along the fold line and draped over the rear wheel, a bit like a hunting trophy.
No chance of repairing that inner tube with a few patches!
And I think it is wonderful the way every male seems to be doing his best to get his place in history in the photo.
If only we knew exactly 'where and when' we might be able to send a copy to any survivors.
It would still be useful to know the source of that photo.
Who knows, there may be an interesting Vincent story behind it.
And access to the original negative would be ideal!
[I have checked the clevtrev 287KB version against the 198KB version I downloaded earlier, and when ZOOMED to equal image size there is no discernible improvement.]