Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> At 4:30 PM +0100 9/24/09, Neil Beddoe wrote: >> Somebody asked me once whether anyone would print black and white if >> colour photography had been invented first. I don't know but I >> think it would be a lot less common. >> People don't realize though how long color photography has been with us. We had the Daguerreotype and the Talbot paper print coming out days apart right across the English channel from each other and a week and a half later some guy was doing it in color with potato starch. Didn't catch on real fast but it was there! "1861: The first known permanent color photograph is taken by James Clerk Maxwell" He also (from Scotland) was heavy into Electromagnetism. Which only makes sense its right next to potato starch color on the electro magnetic spigot. No doubt going on to invent the Maxwell cassette tape which I copied my copy of Abbey Road onto in 1969 when I moved into the Freshman dormitory in Des Moines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography 1839 - 1861 = -22 years of no color just black and white 1839 - 2009 = -170 of photo in the world 170 / 22 = 7.7 Basically we've had color since day one Or day 7.7 Mark William Rabiner