Re: More from D'Arcy Power

Mike,

Boy do I feel stupid. It really reinforces the necessity of checking
every link. You must be the only one to have tried. Anyway, it's
fixed now. Thanks for the heads up.

Nick
On Jul 22, 2004, at 11:54 PM, Mike Vande Bunt wrote:

> Thanks, Nick. The Forgan article is interesting, but for some reason
> the links on the "oldarticles.htm" page for both D'Arcy Power articles
> are to D_arcy_Power.pdf (which is the long 1905 article, not the 2
> page 1925 one). I am surprised no one else has noticed this. I find
> those old articles of yours fascinating, am I the only one who has
> actually tried to read the new ones?
>
> Mike Vande Bunt
> (Not complaining, just confused...)
>
> Nick Dvoracek wrote:
>
>> Some time back now, there was a thread about a 1905 issue of the
>> Photo Miniature by H. D'Arcy Power titled "Advanced Pinhole
>> Photography" that eventually led to me posting that and several other
>> early pinhole articles on my website.
>>
>> Recently, as I was trying to find out more about David Brewster's
>> work with pinhole, Peter Stubbs , who maintains a site on the history
>> of the Edinburgh Photographic Society (
>> http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/index.htm ) sent me an update by D'Arcy
>> Power that appeared in the British Journal of Photography in 1925,
>> twenty years after the Photo Miniature issue. He talks about better
>> materials and improved methods for making pinholes.
>>
>> He also sent me the text of an 1887 presentation to the Edinburgh
>> Photographic Society by Wiliam Forgan. Except for the warning about
>> being careful with the glass plates, it could have been presented
>> yesterday.
>>
>> Both of these are now up on my site at
>> http://idea.uwosh.edu/nick/oldarticles.htm
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