As you can see below, when I reply to an E-mail the little <g> automatically gets removed by the Yahoo fairies. Don't ask me why.... Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,
Of course. I make no claim otherwise. I'm curious as to why you removed from your reply the smiley "" that was originally in my message. Without this it makes my comment about the Turin Shroud look serious. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, June 27, 2002, 9:28:52 PM, you wrote: > I don't think there is any doubt that the camera obscura predates Neipce's >heliograph. Neipce just developed the first photochemical process. > Bob Walkden wrote: Hi, > surely the first photo was Leonardo da Vinci's self-portrait, which is > now doing the rounds as the Shroud of Turin . > In some ways photography has been around since at least the Middle > Ages. There's a fascinating book by Philip Steadman called "Vermeer's > Camera" in which the author argues that Vermeer used a camera obscura > to paint his most famous works. He makes a very good case. The book > includes a brief historical overview of the use of the camera obscura > and other optical devices by painters, sketchers and others which I'm > sure must be interest to most photographers. > --- > Bob > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thursday, June 27, 2002, 12:31:28 PM, you wrote: >> Hi - There's an article on msnbc that I thought you all would be interested in: >> although I'm pretty sure it was not taken with a Pentax :) >> http://www.msnbc.com/news/772860.asp?0dm=N15LT >> Criteque? :) >> Oliver - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . Sign-up for Video Highlights of 2002 FIFA World Cup - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
