The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film can be
reached at:
www.eastman.org/home.htm
Wonderful place. They were featuring Ansel Adams when I was there last.
-Mickey
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From: "Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu" <lamadoo@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] And Another Thing
> As Carson so often said to Sagan in my high school days, "I did not KNOW
that!"
>
> By the way, if anyone is going to Rochester, New York, I heartily
recommend the George Eastman Museum of Photography. I don't have
> the exact name handy but it's very interesting to folks like us.
>
> Biggest impression: the camera for making a photographic mural when they
completed the transcontinental railroad in the USA. That
> is one SERIOUS film plane. As I recall, it exposed exactly one frame and
was summarily retired. I'll bet the exposure ran over
> several days because the extension was so big.
>
> Thank the Lord we don't have to endure mercury vapors during processing
like the pioneers did. Nasty stuff.
>
> Lama
>
>
> From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Where did the 8x10 come
> > from? It was a common window pane size; one that early photographers
that
> > coated their own glass plates with their own emulsion concoctions could
> > readily obtain at the local dry goods store.
>
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