J> To see if there was something slightly closer to on-topic in this, I googled the J> words photography 1828, and came up with one interesting link:
J> http://www.niepce.com/pagus/invus3.html J> The Daguerrotype was not yet conceived, so photography was not yet born, as J> such. However, this year Nicephore Niepce invented a new photographic process, J> based on a light sensitive substance called "Judea bitumen". Niepce's bitumen photograph is considered by almost all scholars as _the_ first photograph. Not Daguerre's. Frantisek

