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We were taller back then before we got old and settled.

There might have been a time when I was a little taller but my waist line has always been about 3" below the top of the Mark V headstock.

I just look ar the proportions of the man compare to the machine and he has the be standing on a box. Even then he look small compare to the tool.

That's it. He looks out of scale to the machine,

I don't know, that's about what I look like next to my machine...minus the freakishly tall legs.

Does the machine seem in any way out of scale to the room to you?

I see what people are saying, I was mostly making a joke about my own stature. I will note, however, that nothing immediately caught my eye when looking at it--he may be on a box, the positioning of the camera or the type of lens may also be contributing. It could be a studio shot with a sloping floor for all I know. I will say that I see much worse in the Sunday paper every week. Start looking at how they Photoshop kids in those playground ads or kids and adults in the ads for pools that will be coming up for the summer. The proportions are ridiculous sometimes.

I just found a 1954 sales brochure with a person in the ad who is that tall. Wow.

everettdavis wrote:I just found a 1954 sales brochure with a person in the ad who is that tall. Wow.

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You can't call it false advertising because there he is, standing "Tall" along side his Shopsmith Mark V.

However, it sure is misleading. If they had used Nick in that photo, it would have been more real world.

dusty wrote:

everettdavis wrote:I just found a 1954 sales brochure with a person in the ad who is that tall. Wow.

He was that tall.png

You can't call it false advertising because there he is, standing "Tall" along side his Shopsmith Mark V.

However, it sure is misleading. If they had used Nick in that photo, it would have been more real world.

Nick's in his 60's now, so in 1952, he was perhaps in grade school, but I get your point.