Hi Steve hope you're well. Great video and history lesson, but what about William Henry Fox-Tolbot 😉, who lived just down the motorway from us at Lacock, definitely worth a visit if you're down this way. Great research and information I definitely learnt a few things, excellently presented and easy to follow. Definitely agree, the mirrorless camera will be here for a while with the few tweets and improvements. Will we be see any photos from the TLR 😂 I bet that would be great fun to use. Best wishes stay safe Jon and Karen
Hey Jon. Hope you both are well. It was great fun researching this. There was alot I could have added but decided to keep it shorter with a few names missed. The original video was 45 minutes long so cut it down so people don't get to bored. Thanks for the comments! Stay safe.
@@StephenJoines So here a question that's bound to cause a few raised eyebrows,😁 do you think that modern digital photography/cameras has made photography much easier as you can see the results instantly. I don't meanthe composition of the image, just the actual getting the actual image. Maybe a subject for a video.
No offense intended, but the exposure time for the earliest known photograph was several DAYS. The eight-hour exposure time was an assumption - since proven wrong - made in the 1950s. A French researcher using Niépce's notes and methods discovered Niépce needed several days to get an exposure. So much for selfies. 😏 Best wishes from Vermont 🍁
When doing research, I can only go on available information. Though you could be correct (and you might be), I kept the original times that had been documented. There are a lot of assumptions about the actual exposure time. However, one question remains? Why would he document a false time? Who knows. Stay safe.
@@StephenJoines Hello! I don't want to appear as a super-fussy, pedantic, annoying fact checker. I mean, that's what I AM, of course. I just don't want to APPEAR as one. 😸 Nicéphore Niépce never stated how long the exposure took. He didn't do much to perfect the heliograph process, abandoning it almost as soon as he'd created it and once he started working with Daguerre. When the 1826-27 photo was discovered in the 1950s, the shadows on both sides of the view led people to correctly assume the exposure was at least eight hours long. Since then, that assumption has turned into a perennially stated fact. I could give you links to the recent studies showing, based on working directly from Niépce's papers, how the eight-hour assumption doesn't hold up. However, the material is in French - and friends don't make friends read French research papers. 😏 Why I'm such a self-made authority on the subject: in order to mark the 200th anniversary of the photo, I'm building an 1800s-style camera obscura and preparing to recreate the heliograph process. Have a fine week, wherever you are. Today, I'll be gardening. It's a great day for it, here in rural Vermont 🍁
@@TheStockwell Like I said. Not saying you are wrong but I can only go by the information out there. I am very interested in true facts so will continue to find out the actual time. So, keep me informed on your experiment with Camera Obscura as this sounds amazing. Finally, I'm in the UK. so it's raining, as always. Stay Safe.
Hi Steve hope you're well. Great video and history lesson, but what about William Henry Fox-Tolbot 😉, who lived just down the motorway from us at Lacock, definitely worth a visit if you're down this way. Great research and information I definitely learnt a few things, excellently presented and easy to follow. Definitely agree, the mirrorless camera will be here for a while with the few tweets and improvements. Will we be see any photos from the TLR 😂 I bet that would be great fun to use.
Best wishes stay safe Jon and Karen
Hey Jon. Hope you both are well. It was great fun researching this. There was alot I could have added but decided to keep it shorter with a few names missed. The original video was 45 minutes long so cut it down so people don't get to bored. Thanks for the comments! Stay safe.
@@StephenJoines So here a question that's bound to cause a few raised eyebrows,😁 do you think that modern digital photography/cameras has made photography much easier as you can see the results instantly. I don't meanthe composition of the image, just the actual getting the actual image. Maybe a subject for a video.
I felt back at school then. I did guess the Kodak question!!
Good boy. Top of the class. Where is my apple?
No offense intended, but the exposure time for the earliest known photograph was several DAYS.
The eight-hour exposure time was an assumption - since proven wrong - made in the 1950s.
A French researcher using Niépce's notes and methods discovered Niépce needed several days to get an exposure.
So much for selfies. 😏
Best wishes from Vermont 🍁
When doing research, I can only go on available information. Though you could be correct (and you might be), I kept the original times that had been documented. There are a lot of assumptions about the actual exposure time. However, one question remains? Why would he document a false time? Who knows. Stay safe.
@@StephenJoines Hello! I don't want to appear as a super-fussy, pedantic, annoying fact checker. I mean, that's what I AM, of course. I just don't want to APPEAR as one. 😸
Nicéphore Niépce never stated how long the exposure took. He didn't do much to perfect the heliograph process, abandoning it almost as soon as he'd created it and once he started working with Daguerre.
When the 1826-27 photo was discovered in the 1950s, the shadows on both sides of the view led people to correctly assume the exposure was at least eight hours long. Since then, that assumption has turned into a perennially stated fact.
I could give you links to the recent studies showing, based on working directly from Niépce's papers, how the eight-hour assumption doesn't hold up.
However, the material is in French - and friends don't make friends read French research papers. 😏
Why I'm such a self-made authority on the subject: in order to mark the 200th anniversary of the photo, I'm building an 1800s-style camera obscura and preparing to recreate the heliograph process.
Have a fine week, wherever you are. Today, I'll be gardening. It's a great day for it, here in rural Vermont 🍁
@@TheStockwell Like I said. Not saying you are wrong but I can only go by the information out there.
I am very interested in true facts so will continue to find out the actual time. So, keep me informed on your experiment with Camera Obscura as this sounds amazing.
Finally, I'm in the UK. so it's raining, as always. Stay Safe.