I've scanned in the pieces of the panorama that I carefully softened and unrolled in the previous video, and reassembled them in Photoshop. The original photos are sharp, so the panorama enlarges well:

In this week's video I show the finished result, introduce a surprise bonus, then explore the panorama’s details. The final image is over 500 megapixels in size, so there’s lots to see!

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Old photo paper often becomes hard and brittle, and I recently received a pair of 1909 panorama photos with exactly that problem. As they’d been kept tightly rolled, if I tried to unroll them I’d likely crack the paper. In this video I’ll show how I first softened the photos’ paper and restored its flexibility, then was able to safely unroll the photos. The whole process took several days, but the results are worth it.

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We’ll start with a close look at the 1934 photo that arrived yesterday from eBay, then we’ll move on to some sharp photos from 1909 that arrived a few days earlier:

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A look at five more photos I bought recently, showing Hong Kong in the 1920s.

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