Could be that you are thinking of Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916). Took
many photos of Yosemite, etc. on glass plates.
See http://www.photographymuseum.com/watkinsl.html
Roger Key, Copenhagen
A week or two ago I caught just the tail end of a portion of one
of the Antique Roadshow programs, and they were talking about a
photographer in the American west in the late 1800s who shot on
20x24 inch glass plates. He hauled camera and plates around on a
string of mules, wrote an autobiography, died in his 90s and left
over 40,000 glass plates. I just can't remember his name.
Now that's photography for the retro folks (of which I am one, I
guess). Wonder how many OMs a mule could carry, if a mule would
carry any OMs.
Walt Wayman
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Robert R. Gries" <rgg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:22:40 -0600
>Glass plates! Now we're talking! If I only shot 8x10 and made
>contact prints, my life would be complete! ;)
>
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