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