Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, there is some what of a debate about these two "first photographs". The officials at the University of Texas where the rooftop photo resides (about a 20 minute bike ride from my house ( lucky me )) claim that the heliograph in French possession is not a true photograph since it was not taken with a camera and the rooftop photo is since it was taken with a camera. http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2002/mar/photograph/ Clif Wright - --- Mark Rabiner <mark@markrabiner.com> wrote: > Ted Bayer wrote: > > > > Hi Mark: > > > > The picture you refer to is the one this article > is about. > > > > I'm not sure of the problem you had in replying to > this posting, but > > when I sent it, I addressed it to all three lists: > HUG, LUG, MUG. > > > > Matthew has answered your question regarding the > MUG. > > > > Regards, > > > > Ted > > > I'm running Netscape and when i hit the send button > which is the > automatic thing to do it sends to the top person on > a list. > The problem is you have to notice the list to hit > the special send all button. > And you don't expect there to be a list when you are > on a list. > Is cross posting considered to be not such a great > thing? I really don't > know but that would be my hunch. > > > On the picture itself. > > I hear a photograph in an open field described. And > the one I know of > and describe is in a town or maybe in a city. It's > roof tops. No open field. > ANd it was done by Niépce of course. > I suspect it's my error. Or the error of my college > textbook. The know > more now. Carbon dating; it's a huge business now! > > > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.markrabiner.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html ===== "The eye is for looking, not for thinking." Marc Riboud __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html