Chambers wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> St. wrote:
>>> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
>>> news:47d2c84a@news.povray.org...
>>>>  Somehow I find some old photographs to be really fascinating. The 
>>>> older
>>>> the photograph, the more fascinating. For example, consider this 
>>>> photograph
>>>> taken in 1897:
>>>>
>>>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/HatfieldClan.jpg
>>>     You're not kidding. I love these photo's too, but did you notice 
>>> the boy wearing a dress, (left, top row)? And is that, (shall we 
>>> say), a 'short' blond haired lady to the right? It makes you think 
>>> about what the mindset of these people was like back then. Hard times 
>>> indeed.
>>
>> The most distracting thing in these old photos is that you never see 
>> anyone smiling.  Hard time indeed.  Either that or "cheeeese!" was 
>> still to be invented. :)
>>
>> and to think Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin were just a few years 
>> away...
> 
> You try standing still for 5 hours, waiting for the film to be 
> completely exposed (or whatever the term was), and see if you can smile 
> the whole time ;)

what?!  5 hours exposure?!  Are you sure?  Whenever I see Old West 
movies, there is a flash and bum, photo taken.  I might expect long 
times of exposures -- though not 5 hours! -- for photos like these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Image-Frederic_Chopin_photo_downsampled.jpeg

But that is from 1849!  Not 1897, which already had cinema movies in 15 
FPS or so...

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