File talk:Demolished vehicles line Highway 80 on 18 Apr 1991.jpg
Latest comment: 12 years ago by Hzoi
None of those vehicles are demolished.
They've all been abandoned (a long time ago judging from the graffiti), and looted, but none show any signs of war damage.
Same with the road - blemish-free.
This photo is almost certainly used in a bogus context - it is not a war photo at all.
- Might be an inaccurate description -- "demolished" versus "abandoned" -- but that's as far as I will agree with you. On the "Highway of Death" page you went so far as to claim the entire photo was bogus. Bottom line, this is a 2006 scan of a 1991 photo of vehicles abandoned on Kuwait Highway 80.
- You can view this exact photo on the Department of Defense's imagery website [1] by searching the photo number, DF-ST-92-09592, or just by searching for "Highway 80." If you search for "Highway 80," two other photos come up that are listed as being taken by the same TSgt Joe Coleman, in the same lighting conditions, and those photos definitely show obvious battle damage.
- This particular image looks like a scan done of a slide or negative -- slide film and negative film are how we used to take pictures before digital cameras. The film grain in the full resolution image is patently obvious. While a photo taken with a digital camera at a higher digital ISO setting would produce grain, it would also be more likely to produce chromatic aberration or purple fringing -- given the lighting and the amount of highlights in this photo, I'd certainly expect to see some purple fringing, but I see none. And I didn't see anything in the EXIF data that said either Nikon or D50 -- but I did see plenty of EXIF data on the scanning process.
