Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] European vacation
From: "Alan Hull" <hull@vaggeryd.mail.telia.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 23:06:47 +0100

Hello Francois.  Yes, Niepce and Daguerre were early experimentors.  But =
I
was refering to chemistry not metallurgy.  I was kind enough to imply tha=
t
they were thinking along the right lines before Fox-Talbot beat them to i=
t.
 Anyway the point of my post was to entice a LUG tourist from USA to feed
his Leica with Agfa colour or Ilford B/W.  The mothers milk that would ma=
ke
the red dot glow with health.  Alan Hull.
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> Fr=E5n: Francois Jouve <Francois.Jouve@polytechnique.fr>
> Till: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> =C4mne: Re: [Leica] European vacation
> Datum:  den 17 mars 1998 10:39
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> On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Alan Hull wrote:
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> > Did somebody really say that?  Maybe a short refresher course on foto
> > chemistry is called for.
> > 1  The French thought about it.
> > 2. The British invented it.
> > 3. The Germans perfected it.
> > 4. The Americans put it in a little yellow box.
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> I am not every day proud of my country (especially when the 1/6 of it
> choose a fascist party) but I must admit that the French, the British a=
nd
> the German thought about it, but the French invented it (N.Niepce an
> Daguerre were french, were'nt they ?).
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> F.J.
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