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Below the level of the subway and below the level of the sewers sit the catacombs. To preserve the bones, all photography in the catacombs must only use available light. To minimize the hassle of focusing, I manually stopped down the aperture, set the camera on a stone bench, and let the camera suck in light for nearly a minute. It's at times like these that an SLR is worth the money. I saw tourist after tourist try and fail to get a decent shot with P&S and cell phone cameras. A couple of times, I had to ask people to wait while the shutter was open...which is difficult considering we heard about 5 languages being spoken down there.
This was another lucky shot because nobody walked through the frame during the long exposure time. I didn't have anybody to guard the passage to the right. Whew!
This was another lucky shot because nobody walked through the frame during the long exposure time. I didn't have anybody to guard the passage to the right. Whew!
Image size
1500x1000px 1.26 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
Shutter Speed
30/1 second
Aperture
F/20.0
Focal Length
22 mm
ISO Speed
1600
Date Taken
Oct 17, 2008, 11:03:29 PM
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NVM I answered my own question 
-The practice common then for burying the lesser-wealthy dead was mass inhumation. Once an excavation in one section of the cemetery was full, it would be covered over and another opened. Few of the dead buried in this way had the privilege of coffins; often the casket used for a burial ceremony would be re-used for the next. Thus the residues resulting from the decaying of organic matter, a process often chemically accelerated with the use of lime, entered directly into the earth, creating a situation quite unacceptable for a city whose then principal source of liquid sustenance was well water.
By the 17th century the sanitary conditions around Saints Innocents were unbearable. As it was one of Paris' most sought-after cemeteries and a large source of revenue for the parish and church, the clergy had continued burials there even when its grounds were filled to overflowing. By then the cemetery was lined on all four sides with "charniers" reserved for the bones of the dead exhumed from mass graves that had "lain" long enough for all the flesh they contained to decompose. Once emptied, a mass sepulture would be used again, but even then the earth was already filled beyond saturation with decomposing human remains.
-The practice common then for burying the lesser-wealthy dead was mass inhumation. Once an excavation in one section of the cemetery was full, it would be covered over and another opened. Few of the dead buried in this way had the privilege of coffins; often the casket used for a burial ceremony would be re-used for the next. Thus the residues resulting from the decaying of organic matter, a process often chemically accelerated with the use of lime, entered directly into the earth, creating a situation quite unacceptable for a city whose then principal source of liquid sustenance was well water.By the 17th century the sanitary conditions around Saints Innocents were unbearable. As it was one of Paris' most sought-after cemeteries and a large source of revenue for the parish and church, the clergy had continued burials there even when its grounds were filled to overflowing. By then the cemetery was lined on all four sides with "charniers" reserved for the bones of the dead exhumed from mass graves that had "lain" long enough for all the flesh they contained to decompose. Once emptied, a mass sepulture would be used again, but even then the earth was already filled beyond saturation with decomposing human remains.