Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. - ---------- > 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 >=20 > On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Alan Hull wrote: >=20 > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 >=20 > 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 ?). >=20 > F.J. >=20