Re: The Camera Obscura

From: Richard Heather <rheather_at_domain.name.suppressed>
Date: Mon 09 Apr 2001 - 16:45:54 PDT

This quote should be on the WW pinhole photography day site and posters.
Richard Heather

lisa styles wrote:

> Leonardo da Vinci seems to have found the magic that we are all so attracted
> to in pinhole photography. If he were still around today I reckon he would
> be into this discussion group!
>
> Love the quote Lonnie, thanks :-)
>
> > Before the invention of photography, here is what Leonardo da Vinci said
> > about the camera obscura. Can you pinhole photographers relate?
> >
> > "who would believe that so small a space could contain the image of all the
> > universe? O mighty process! What talent can avail to penetrate a nature
> > such as these? What tonque will it be that can unfold so great a wonder?
> > Verily, none! This it is that guides the human discource to the considering
> > of divine things. Here the figures, here the colors, here all the images of
> > every part of the universe are contracted to a point. O what a point is so
> > marvelous!"
> >
> > --Leonardo da Vinci
> > (1452-1519)
> >
> > Lonnie Paulson
> > Minneapolis, MN
> > USA
> >
>
Received on Mon Apr 9 19:40:48 2001

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