Re: [pinhole-discussion] Return of the King's Aragorn a Pinholer!

2003-12-28 Thread ellis CORY
From: "andy schmitt" Besides in 50 years... I'll be dead... no refunds after artist is dead. The 'archival' is mainly for future family members and historians. We still have photos from the birth of photography, yet many from the birth of digital have already faded away and it is rare to find the

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Return of the King's Aragorn a Pinholer!

2003-12-28 Thread ellis CORY
From: "Kate Fancy way of saying "inkjet print"-hehehe No, ordinary inkjet will probably only last on display in daylight for about 10 years, archival pigment print is supposed to last for 80-100 years, hence the 'archival' note. I understand this was to rival silver prints, whic last longer any wa

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Merry Christmas!

2003-12-25 Thread ellis CORY
Just to wish everyone in the group, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy picture taking New Year. 'They shall call Him Jesus, because He will save people from their sins'. Ellis

Re: [pinhole-discussion] PS4

2003-12-04 Thread ellis CORY
From: "Eric Mitchell" Re: [pinhole-discussion] PS4 Were do you get all this info great this has really got me all infused ,and starting to seek out all these facts, again it proves we never stop learning cheers, Eric. Various websites on Talbot, pinhole, photography, talking to others, various boo

Re: [pinhole-discussion] PS4

2003-12-03 Thread ellis CORY
As I understand it, the first use of light to help produce a picture was in the mid 16th century, when a camera obscura was used to project an image onto paper and the artist would trace around it. The first recorded study of the light effect on silver salts was by Schulze in 1727 who filled a glas

Re: [pinhole-discussion] PS4

2003-12-02 Thread ellis CORY
Niepce produced the first discernible photographic, fixed image at least 10 years before Daguerre and Daguerre announced his method only a few months before Talbot, but Talbot is the inventor of the modern film photographic process ie using a negative and positive process. Ellis Tom wrote: If

Re: [pinhole-discussion] first image of a photograph?

2003-11-23 Thread ellis CORY
If we agree that both Atkins in 1843, using Talbots ideas on photograms and Talbot using photographic images, were both firsts in different areas, then we can replace the lid and tiptoe quietly away !!! Ellis

Re: [pinhole-discussion] first image of a photograph?

2003-11-22 Thread ellis CORY
As I understand the article, Anna Atkins used Talbots photogenic (shadowgraph) process, this really only gives a outline of the article placed on sensitive paper. This still leaves Talbots book to be the first to provide photographs as recognisable images. Ellis > Regarding John Ptak's post

Re: [pinhole-discussion] first image of a photograph?

2003-11-22 Thread ellis CORY
I am not sure I understand your question, but the information I have is that the Photogenic process was invented by Talbot in 1835, it was basically a sensitive paper with an object placed on top, exposed to the sun, developed and fixed. The idea had been tried before, but fixing the image was not

Re: [pinhole-discussion] folding camera

2003-11-01 Thread ellis CORY
- Original Message - In fact, you can remove the lens from the ColorPack II cameras without > any disassembly: Just pry (gently) the lens off with a flat bladed > screw driver. The lens mount is glued on to the fromt of the camera and > it WILL snap off at the glue joint. > > Mike V

Re: [pinhole-discussion] pinhole swap

2003-10-12 Thread ellis CORY
The best place to start is here http://www.rahji.com/noindex/pinholenewyear2003.php3 or at www.pinholeday.org The rules are simple, send some of your pictures to anyone on the list, hopefully someone will send some to you. The photos have to be lensless, that's all. Ellis

Re: [pinhole-discussion] RE: [pinhole-discussion]360 Pinhole Camera

2003-10-12 Thread ellis CORY
I also like to see swops of pinhole photos. World Pinhole Day is on www.pinholeday.org Swops can be arranged. Look out for next year. Ellis

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-09-05 Thread ellis CORY
> Ellis, > Actually you are slightly wrong. For colours the official vision angle > is 10 deg. If interested in details, look here: > http://colour.derby.ac.uk/colour/info/glossary/c/CIE1964Observer.html > taco Sorry to be pedantic, I am not wrong, the source I got it from would be ( but I did not

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-09-04 Thread ellis CORY
It was good of Gary to resurrect my old question, times have moved on from then and I have gained a lot of useful information. After all, 'meaningless' is in the eye of the beholder ! and for the purposes I required, eveything I have found out is 'meaningful. For those interested AVERAGE values are

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Re: A teacher with a question

2003-08-19 Thread ellis CORY
Richard wrote: Regarding cyanotype: Pre-coated papers and chemicals are available from: Blue Printables P.O. Box 2254 Vashon Island, WA www.blueprintables.com Does anyone have a UK supplier(s) contact details, for those of us this side of the pond, please? Thanks, Ellis

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Light metering with TTL camera's

2003-06-18 Thread ellis CORY
Imagine, I want to use a body cap with a pinhole with a reflex camera. Any ideas if I can use the TTL light meter of the camera, eventually in combination with David Balihar's calculator? Taco The Canon EOS range can be set to Aperture Priority and with no lens fitted, will show 0.0 on the LCD scr

Re: [pinhole-discussion] polaroid pinhole question

2003-06-14 Thread ellis CORY
Subject: [pinhole-discussion] polaroid pinhole question > I have a Polaroid Land Camera that I took off the lense housing and replaced > it with a board to size fitted with a pinhole in the middle. It is one of > the older Memory Maker versoins of the land camera. I use the Polaroid SX70/600 ty