Can you imagine the excitement Neipce must have felt during this process and on it's
completion. It must be right up there with finding a K 85/1.8, maybe even better!
Oliver Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi - There's an article on msnbc that I
thought you all would be interested in:
althou
Hi,
surely the first photo was Leonardo da Vinci's self-portrait, which is
now doing the rounds as the Shroud of Turin .
In some ways photography has been around since at least the Middle
Ages. There's a fascinating book by Philip Steadman called "Vermeer's
Camera" in which the author argues tha
I don't think there is any doubt that the camera obscura predates Neipce's heliograph.
Neipce just developed the first photochemical process.
Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,
surely the first photo was Leonardo da Vinci's self-portrait, which is
now doing the rounds as the Shroud of
You can tell it wasn't taken with a Pentax: The bokeh sucks! (sorry Wendy )
-frank
Oliver Raymond wrote:
> Hi - There's an article on msnbc that I thought you all would be interested in:
> although I'm pretty sure it was not taken with a Pentax :)
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/772860.asp?0dm=
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From: Oliver Raymond
Subject: First Ever Photo in the World!
> Hi - There's an article on msnbc that I thought you all would
be interested in:
> although I'm pretty sure it was not taken with a Pentax :)
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/new
Hi,
Of course. I make no claim otherwise.
I'm curious as to why you removed from your reply the smiley "" that
was originally in my message. Without this it makes my comment about the
Turin Shroud look serious.
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Bob
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Thursday, June 27, 2002, 9:28:52 PM, you wrot
As you can see below, when I reply to an E-mail the littleautomatically gets
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Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,
Of course. I make no claim otherwise.
I'm curious as to why you removed from your reply the smiley "" that
was orig
Oh yeah... And to add to what you were saying. I remember reading somewhere that the
Mayans would did a big pit and with a sort of "pinhole lens" would view such things as
eclipses and such. Central American camera obscura?
Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> surely the first phot
Bob Walken wrote:
In some ways photography has been around since at least the Middle
Ages. There's a fascinating book by Philip Steadman called "Vermeer's
Camera" in which the author argues that Vermeer used a camera obscura
to paint his most famous works. He makes a very good case.
Yes, maybe
Hi,
Philip Steadman speculates in the book about a possible connection
between Fabritius and Vermeer. Vermeer owned some of Fabritius's
paintings, as well as work by van Hoogstraten, another painter who
was at the very least familiar with the camera obscura. Apparently in
Delft Vermeer was descri
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