10 points for the best amazing fact about photography?

I was watching the "History Detectives" once and a person had photos supposedly taken inside a Civil War prison camp using a homemade camera and chemicals from the hospital. They reproduced his method and found it worked. Fascinating piece, but even more fascinating was the desire to record the people of that conflict.

You know the problem with dynamic range - the camera can only handle a certain amount of difference (light/dark) before it becomes too much for it. We have ways of working around that (such as HDR software), but none of it will ever compare with our own eyes/brain.

I used to think that our eyes and brain were amazing for being able to handle such a vast dynamic range all in the same "picture", but then I learned that we can't, either.

We don't, in fact, see and process all those levels at the same time. Instead our eyes/brain see and process various parts of what we see separately, then combine the results into the one "view". It all happens to incredibly quickly, that we perceive it as a single instance.

So I guess it is a little bit like an animated HDR GIF running at an insane speed inside our head, right?

My iPhone 5 is the fastest photocopier on earth.

It's faster and produces better quality images than our $40K photocopier here at work. I can do everything I want right from my pocket, right down to OCR from the photographed image.

Oh at home somewhere I have a Nikon D300 as well :-/ I wonder what state the batteries are in?

Cheers :-)

I'm not sure of what you do or do not know, but something i find interesting:

photography originally comes from a form of painting. a camera obscura, which is basically a hole made in a dark room which then perceives the light from the outside and projects an upside down image of what's on the outside. the use of camera obscura, or pinhole photography, can be traced back as far as 400 bc.

It would be difficult to read 'who you are' from that. But you seem like an interested person. Let me give you a tip on the writing. I noticed you used a lot of "..." like you are writing the way you would talk to someone in person. You might wanna remove those and put in paragraphs instead. It would be easier to read =p Water to diet coke??? I'm jealous! I wish that I could do that haha

In 'film' photography toner solution is the same as embalming fluid used by the ancient Egyptians.

Probably why you never see ancient photos of the Pharaohs, all that toner was used in their embalming and it was cheaper to have slaves crave statues.

Add- Of course slaves crave statues BUT I meant carve.

The first color photograph made in Russia was of Leo Tolstoy in 1909 by Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.

http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/02/century-old-colo...

For some reason, I find old color photos to be extremely compelling despite the subject matter, maybe for the same reason Greg Maddux said he was enthralled to see Yankee Stadium in color rather than B&W.

It's making a selfportrait throwing the camera up to the air with the selftimer

You can get most any black and white negative film processed into a transparency here. Works great too, I have had it done!

http://www.dr5.com/

steve

Just by looking further beyond the photography, tells you what the photography's purpose is or

you'll see your self in that image.