Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/18
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But now let's not forget poor Nicephore Niepce! Unsung hero that he is! ;-)
Kit
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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Henning
Wulff
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 6:12 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Unhealthy Crouching Attitudes.
At 2:30 PM -0800 2/18/03, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>Leo
>
>OK, but still not paper. That came later, with the negative/positive
>process.
>
>I have some Daguerreotypes and they are indeed on metal, covered
>with glass.
>
>Jerry
>
>"Wesson, Leo W" wrote:
As I mentioned before, Talbot started that, and on paper, and almost
exactly the same period as Daguerre, in the late 1830's. Both had
created earlier images that were non fixed, and both made their
first, fixed images in 1839; one on metal, and the other on paper.
Glass came later.
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