Comments by "Michael Wright" (@michaelwright2986) on "The Birth of Photography: Drawing With Light (and silver iodide)" video.

  1. No Fox Talbot? I know you can't do everything, but he was ready to publish at almost exactly the same time as Daguerre (Darwin/Wallace, much?), and he invented the negative-positive process (which, as you know of course, is the mechanism used in modern reversal films, and a quite different way of getting positives out of the camera). Which is the true line of the future, because you can make many prints of the same picture. Also, he lived and did his work at Lacock Abbey, offering many possibilities for misreadings in the blooper reel. BTW, with B+W negatives, if you hold them right, you can sometimes see a positive image by reflection off the silver. IIRC, works best with underexposed images.
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