the midtones...at the extremieties [particularly on the left side of the print became the considerably darker with age.
I ran this through a number of procedures...including making a monotone copy. The lens was actually quite edge to edge razor sharp
part of the sense that the edges werent that sharp is also based on the unatural color the print has taken on with age.
the Only difference between the two images in this short animation is that one retains the colorization and the other doesnt.
