Joe Portale
At 10:10 PM 6/17/1998 +0100, you wrote:
>Dick Sullivan wrote:
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>> Most alt-photo process could be
>>reasonably thought of as 15th Century processes. Yeah really! No they
>>didn't do gum prints in 1470, but they had on hand all of the technology
>>infrastructure to do so. If you had a couple of savvy people sit down with
>>Leonardo Da Vinci and explained the principles of optics and the camera --
>>he was pretty far along on that already. And then explained wet plate
>>collodion printing and the manufacture of the materials needed, and showed
>>him how to make gum prints, albumen prints or a host of others, he could
>>have quite easily have done so using tools and materials available to him.
>>in his day.
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>BTW,
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>I have heard or read somewhere, that there were discovered some pictures,
>that are claimed to be Leonardo´s photoexperiments - in color !
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>Does anyone know more about it ?
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>Regards,
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>Galina.
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