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I am seeing MANY Duplicate images - Dutch Reformed batches

Harmon, James Bartlett
Harmon, James Bartlett ✭✭
September 11, 2023 edited September 30, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

This is wasting our time. Are there no rules when people are taking pictures OR People who put these Batches together.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 11, 2023

    Often, photographers took duplicate images on purpose, in case of poor focus or difficult-to-read original images. Remember that many of these were taken MANY years ago with microfilm cameras that were not sophisticated. No autofocus, often in difficult lighting conditions. I have seen examples where it is obvious the page moved - I suspect sometimes the photographer was working in a room with an open window because the weather was HOT. With a little breeze, the page moved. So, he (or she, later) took an extra shot to be sure of having a good image for us to find all these years later.

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