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Subject: [Leica] Woman and Dog
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll Querol)
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:32:56 +0200
References: <C6E16116.5554B%mark@rabinergroup.com> <p06230904c6e19d1715ff@[10.1.16.146]>

To Henning, Mark

AS said to Neil, in my opinion is a question of preferences. The life  
is color, maybe B&W shows a different way to see the life, usually the  
colors distract me, maybe not for others. B&W helps to concentrate the  
attention.

Saludos
Lluis


El 25/09/2009, a las 0:07, Henning Wulff escribi?:

> At 5:47 PM -0400 9/24/09, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>> At 4:30 PM +0100 9/24/09, Neil Beddoe wrote:
>>>> Somebody asked me once whether anyone would print black and white  
>>>> if
>>>> colour photography had been invented first.  I don't know but I
>>>> think it would be a lot less common.
>>>>
>>
>>
>> People don't realize though how long color photography has been  
>> with us.
>> We had the Daguerreotype and the Talbot paper print coming out days  
>> apart
>> right across the English channel from each other and a week and a  
>> half later
>> some guy was doing it in color with potato starch. Didn't catch on  
>> real fast
>> but it was there!
>>
>> "1861: The first known permanent color photograph is taken by James  
>> Clerk
>> Maxwell"
>>
>> He also (from Scotland) was heavy into Electromagnetism. Which only  
>> makes
>> sense its right next to potato starch color on the electro magnetic  
>> spigot.
>> No doubt going on to invent the Maxwell cassette tape which I  
>> copied my copy
>> of Abbey Road onto in 1969 when I moved into the Freshman dormitory  
>> in Des
>> Moines.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography
>>
>>
>> 1839 - 1861 = -22 years of no color just black and white
>> 1839 - 2009  = -170 of photo in the world
>> 170 / 22  = 7.7
>> Basically we've had color since day one
>> Or day 7.7
>>
>>
>
>
> But until very recently it has always been much more difficult, more  
> expensive and often impermanent. So not practiced as much. It really  
> wasn't that long ago when National Geographic subtitled articles  
> with the number of colour photos included. A lot of magazines in the  
> 60's were still B&W and newspapers until the 90's.
>
> News was generally B&W, and we learned to see news that way.
>
> Then again, news was often presented in B&W fashion, but that's  
> another topic :-).
>
> -- 
>
>   *            Henning J. Wulff
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