Peter Gervai wrote:
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:36:40PM -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote:
No flash can be justified because some of these old things can be eventually be damaged by repeated exposure to bright lights.
Which is a funny thing to observe: try Louvre/Paris, where you're mostly forbidden using flashes... but you may do whatever you please in the section of famous paintings, including [[Mona Lisa]]. Either they're fake (don't think do), or they're made of flash resistant 15th-18th century painting. :)
The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that the no flash policy may be doing the amateur photographer a favour. It prevents the situation where he gets back home to find nothing but pictures of the glare back of his own flash equipment. :-)
Ec