Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search](2597x1805, 1874 KB) I was just searching of histories of photographic processes and found on Wikipedia, my favorite new info tool, a huge scan of http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/View_from_the_Window_at_L e_Gras%2C_Joseph_Nic?phore_Ni?pce.jpg Ni?pce' s first snapshot. Which took 8 hours and therefore it says has the sun shining on both sides of the building. That I'm not seeing by the way. But I've got one heck of a desktop or screensaver now. And you will too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras%2C_Joseph _Nic?phore_Ni?pce.jpg That's 2597 pixies across! No shoeshine guy though. He must have been another roll. Interestingly they don't say this is the first photograph. They say this is the 's earliest surviving photograph Ni?pce did. And than after doing it particular shot he gave up on the whole process and brought in some guy named Daguerre. Then he died. Means I'll not be making to many Ni?pceograms in the near future without a face mask and rubber gloves. Make sure Ni?pceogram gets put in your spell checker. Its an important term I just made it up. Mark Rabiner New York, NY markrabiner.com