Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Einstein 1921 2

Einstein in 1921

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 3 Jan 2011 at 06:09:42 (UTC)

Reason: Pretty amazing portrait of Einstein and at over 8 mp I think the quality is there. A crop of this was nominated in 2008 which failed, but appeared to have a sock puppet issue.. not sure what went on then.
Articles in which this image appears: Albert Einstein, Wormholes in fiction, List of scientific publications by Albert Einstein
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
Creator: Ferdinand Schmutzer

Support as nominator --— raeky t 06:09, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional support. Needs some dusts/scratches removal, but otherwise the composition (the background, the posture) is excellent. Twilightchill t 11:57, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but from the opposite perspective as twilightchill. I think as a historical image, dust and scratches are forgivable, and to remove them wouldn't add to the image all that much. Anoldtreeok (talk) 23:04, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, however, I would like to see some removal of dust and scratches, especially dust that arises from scanning the image, not from the image itself. The presence of dust and scratches is distracting. Purpy Pupple (talk) 22:24, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above issues. Jó Kritika (talk) 05:05, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

*Note: Someone uploaded a new tweaked version over the original at 14:01, 29 December 2010, I reverted it, it should be uploaded as a separate file and listed as an alt... — raeky t 17:54, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Weak oppose. A very charismatic picture, but it's technically a little lacking. J Milburn (talk) 15:15, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose per J Milburn. This looks like it's an issue with the scan more so than the actual photo. For example, it looks like there's aberration between the fingers of Einstein's left hand, but that couldn't have come from the original photo... upstate NYer 00:10, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 15:05, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]