Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lawrence, I did look it up last night.. the date was late 1891 when the photos were taken and they were on roll film. Actually, from the website of the National Media Museum: <http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Photography/home.asp> "In 1885, George Eastman?s American paper roll film became available and this was followed by his commercial development of celluloid film in late 1889." Peter Dzwig FWIW The expedition in question was the Gibson-Lewis expedition to St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, leading to the discovery of the Codex Sinaiticus and other Greek and Syriac documents dating to 3rd and 4th Centuries Peter Dzwig wrote: > Lawrence, > > I recently came across a reference to film - as opposed to plate - cameras > and > the development of the negatives thereof in an account of a trip to Sinai > in, I > think, the 1880s. I will try and find the details later tonight. > > Peter > > Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >> Photographic archeological and anthropological studies were carried out >> using plate and roll film cameras nearly a quarter century before the >> Leica >> was invented. Folding cameras using roll film were marketed in the 1890s, >> freeing photographers from the necessity of carrying plates. Amundsen >> photographed the Sooth Pole with a Kodak folding camera in 1912, the year >> before Barnack built the first Leica. > -- =========================================================== Dr Peter Dzwig