Interesting and odd statements, here. "Taking a photo used to take minutes of exposure" - daguerreotypes, sure - 3 to 20 minutes, but daguerreotypes were on the scene barely twenty years when the more practical ambrotype was invented in 1850. Exposure time - 20 seconds. Ten years after that, the tintype cut that time in half. "The end result was a grainy, black and white image." Black and white, sure. But, "grainy" and "fuzzy, was-out affairs" are just flat-out ignorant, inept categorizations. The image quality of a good daguerreotype makes it, even today, one the finest photographic processes of all time.
Noticed that too. I've probably been far too pedantic on the internet on this topic, but yeah there's a lot of misconceptions, he's just parroting the ones we've all heard before. Go anywhere and read about the Franco-Prussian War or American Civil War and you can probably find at least one reference saying "exposure time was hours" and that motion could not be captured, which is pretty annoying when you actually use these things.
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Interesting and odd statements, here. "Taking a photo used to take minutes of exposure" - daguerreotypes, sure - 3 to 20 minutes, but daguerreotypes were on the scene barely twenty years when the more practical ambrotype was invented in 1850. Exposure time - 20 seconds. Ten years after that, the tintype cut that time in half.
"The end result was a grainy, black and white image." Black and white, sure. But, "grainy" and "fuzzy, was-out affairs" are just flat-out ignorant, inept categorizations. The image quality of a good daguerreotype makes it, even today, one the finest photographic processes of all time.
Noticed that too. I've probably been far too pedantic on the internet on this topic, but yeah there's a lot of misconceptions, he's just parroting the ones we've all heard before. Go anywhere and read about the Franco-Prussian War or American Civil War and you can probably find at least one reference saying "exposure time was hours" and that motion could not be captured, which is pretty annoying when you actually use these things.
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Very whitewashed and simplified.
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You lost me in the first 20 seconds. Ignorance....