Sephia Room: The Last-Copy Photo Restoration Bench

Field notes

The page lays out a five-operation bench beginning with manual corner placement to remove perspective, tabletop, thumb, and glare. It distinguishes ordinary spotting and haze correction from missing facial detail, which it says will remain an honest gap rather than be reconstructed. A browser demonstration applies synthesised damage to a public-domain 1961 Northern Nigeria photograph, allowing the source, repair target, and rejected over-reconstruction to be compared as versions of the same plate.