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World's First Photo
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"'The image acknowledged as the world's first photograph - taken by a French inventor in 1826 - has passed its first full-scale analysis with flying colors and is now awaiting an airtight case that will keep it safe for centuries to come, scientists said Wednesday.'" See also the first color photography.
that the world's second photo was of a naked woman.
I've lost track of the humber of technologies that were initially driven by porn. BBS's, Video CD's, e-commerce, and of course, the amazing X10 camera.
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where saying "First." really does mean something.
So long and thanks for all the fish . . . !!!
interesting ... the photo gets the same fate as the inventor, or were coffins airtight back then?
Fault loves the past, worry loves the future, but content enjoys the present.
... what kind of developer or fixer a pewter plate used?! To bad PhotoFlow is a more recent invention, because that plate REALLY looks like it could have used it!
The wages of sin are unreported and back taxes are hell to pay.
The first one was destroyed after the photographer realized his thumb was over the aperture.
Seriously, Don't take anything I say seriously.
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Actually, the photo had been taken 40 years earlier, but Joe had to wait for the first Fotomat to be invented.
They're a lot more likely to be viewable than color photographs you took 15 years ago. Color prints, especially the first decade or two worth, fade incredibly fast compared to properly processed (i.e. washed until bleach and other chemicals are gone) black and white photos. From what I understand, there are more B&W civil war photos surviving than color photos from the first 5-10 years of those (and I read this a while back, so I assume it's only gotten worse.)
Yes, CDRs do degrade (albeit slowly.) But you can always transfer the information over to new CDRs with no degredation (yay digital tech!)
I'm more concerned about my DV tapes. Will they degrade before I can afford to transfer them to DVDs (at current prices transferring even my small collection would cost me nearly a grand.)
If you really want to preserve your photos for eternity, post them to USENET. Everyone knows the binaries there are just the same photos being posted over and over...