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sanchi heuser
19-Aug-2009, 08:02
Presentation of Jacqe Daguerre's new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Daguerre


Cheers
sanchi
Don Wilkes
19-Aug-2009, 12:05
That page does not exist. The following page for Daguerre does exist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerre

\donw
sanchi heuser
19-Aug-2009, 12:37
That page does not exist. The following page for Daguerre does exist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerre

\donw


Thanks.
Bill_1856
19-Aug-2009, 15:28
The most important contribution Daguerre made to photography was to get Fox-Talbot off his fat arse and patented his negative/positive process.
claudiocambon
19-Aug-2009, 18:46
Actually I believe it was free to the world, except to the English, to whom it was licensed. Fox Talbot instead did not give away his inventions until the RPS I believe pinned him down on the ground and took it away from him, and then gave it to everyone. Daguerre and Niepce's son got a modest pension, Fox Talbot may have gotten less than that. It may have been for the greater good, but I can also see why Fox Talbot held out.
goamules
20-Aug-2009, 07:17
The most important contribution Daguerre made to photography was to get Fox-Talbot off his fat arse and patented his negative/positive process.

I would not concur, nor would the thousands of daguerreotypists who opened studios and practiced that process.
Mystery Jig
20-Aug-2009, 20:24
The French government bought it from Daguerre and gave it to the world, except for England. Yay big government!