Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Akeley Motion Picture Camera

Voting period ends on 26 Oct 2024 at 10:44:47 (UTC)

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]