Face As It Appears & As Photographed
The image on the left of the face
as it appears on the Shroud. The image on the right is a negative
of the image. Clearly, the dark blue image is a positive-looking
image suggesting that the image on the Shroud is, itself, a
negative.
  This
phenomenon was first discovered more than a century ago, when in
1898, a photographer named Secondo Pia took the first-ever
photographs of the Shroud with a large box camera. While
developing his photographs he discovered that images that appeared
on the glass plate negatives were positive images, startling in
clarity and realistic appearance. For the first time people could
see the amazing detail in the Shroud’s images. It is not that the
detail wasn’t there on the Shroud. It was. But our minds are not
well adapted to interpreting negative images. What for centuries
had appeared only as ghostlike images now appeared to be
graphically remarkable front and back pictures of the man on the
Shroud.
See:
Pixels, Negativity and 3D
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