Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A bit noisy, no? Why didn't he run it through NeatImage? ;-) Seriously now? Looks like the first TV images: you sense there's something you know, and your mind fills in the gaps. Makes it a bit as if seen by somebody with special eyes. About the sun not showing: what if he was facing north? Philippe Op 24-feb-07, om 20:50 heeft Mark Rabiner het volgende geschreven: > (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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >