Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Unhealthy Crouching Attitudes.
From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:30:35 -0800
 
At 10:58 AM -0800 2/18/03, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>Jeff
>
>Very good, but I doubt that those early photographers ever fixed
>their images on paper.  They used glass plates for the positive
>images.
>
>But it is still funny!  Thanks.

Talbot invented the negative/positive thing and he did it with paper. 
Daguerre's process used glass plates.

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Oops! Daguerre did it on metal.

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