Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information