So, it the flash that is the issue. Does that mean you could take photos without a flash? On Friday, May 28, 2004, at 07:45 AM, Wolfgang Schlick wrote: >> What would be the wisdom in disallowing a photo of the original? > > Actually, photos of the hood do exist: front, back, close-ups of > various > parts; I've seen them last year, when I visited the Royal Museum. They > are > all done for research and under 'labaratory conditions'. But when such > things are on display, the public is not allowed to take any shots in > general! I think that happened in Kirkwall as well. > The reason for that is quite simple: Folks might use flash lights esp. > from > short distances and this lights do not only harm to the colors but to > the > fragile textile structures as well. A few couple of flash lights may > have > the same result as a display in bright sunshine for days. > It is the same as it is with old paintings ... but such things as the > hood > will react even more sensible. > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >

>So, it the flash that is the issue. Does that mean you could take photos without a flash? Depends on what is on show but in most cases: NO! ... at least not such things like the hood or similar stuff. The shots I talked about where taken under "laboratory conditions", will say using as little light as possible, lights of specific wave lengths that does not harm the object so much und/or using extrem long "exposure times" (sorry, don't know the proper English expression). @ Judy: It is in fact nearly the same problem as it is with old paintings where not only the colors of the top layers are affected but the underlying grounding as well. Under "heavy" light the whole system is "weathering" ... within relatively short times or only small figures of flash lights as intensive studies at the Old Pinakothek in Munich have proved (and I am sure in other places as well).