Oldest photogaphs?

[John Kasaian]

FWIW:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LkaF...eature=related

I like the sound track!

[Bill_1856]

Thank you.
Bill

[jnanian]

thanks john !

one wonders, what sorts of photographic images
from NOW will exist in 150 or 200 years ...

not many shoeboxes with snapshots anymore
unless flickr is the proverbial " shoebox of the world " .

- john

[tgtaylor]

I have some ammonium chloride and geletin on order to try my hand at making salt prints. The salted print process was discovered by Henry Fox Talbot in the 1830's and the first photographic printing process on paper and was the dominate process until around 1860.

http://www.alternativephotography.co...a-dash-of-salt

Thomas

[Emmanuel BIGLER]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LkaF...eature=related

Thanks, John for this pointer to a very interesting "virtual collection".

If I dare to add a few comments :
- I had never seen before the image of a leaf by Wedgwood. It raises of course a dispute about its authenticity, nevertheless, it's fascinating.

- the contact print of an old XVII-th century engraving by Niépce was auctioned in 2002, before that I had never heard about it, it was in a private collection
(auction of the Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes collection, 2002, the image was acquired by the French National Library, BNF)

- the famous bitumen image 'view at le Gras' is kept at the University of Texas at Austin http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibition...p/viewing.html
The university's web site explains that the image is visible for the public, which is a really great thing, taking into account how precious this unique image can be.

- and a last remark : taking into account that the daguerréotype process was officially disclosed, patent-free, on Jan. 7, 1839 (to the French academy of sciences), it is absolutely amazing to see how fast the process disseminated through the whole world, from America to Europe and Japan !!!

[Drew Bedo]

At some point, the www/internet will become telepathic and all e-files will be lost due to hardware-incompatability.

[Brian C. Miller]

Oldest color moving pictures, from England:

[tgtaylor]

I have some ammonium chloride and geletin on order to try my hand at making salt prints. The salted print process was discovered by Henry Fox Talbot in the 1830's and the first photographic printing process on paper and was the dominate process until around 1860.

http://www.alternativephotography.co...a-dash-of-salt

Thomas

Here's the result:



Yep. This is how they did it back in the 1830's.

Thomas

[John Kasaian]

Here's the result:



Yep. This is how they did it back in the 1830's.

Thomas

Cool gun emplacements!

[Tajmul12345]

wow 200 year's before picture, i am surprise to see this pictures.