Top pet peeve of 19th century photographers?

[Deep13]

It was hard to be a photographer in the 19th century. What was their most irksome annoyances?

[BrotherBuzz]

1. Eight hour exposer of Grand Central Station was always void of people

[baldguy]

2. Fairies

The exterminators can never seem to get rid of them.

[Deep13]

5. Ah, the UFO pictures of the 19th century.

:)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. Actually, that was in 1917.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

[Richardo]

24. Killjoy

:P

[IDemo]

3. Subjects haven't bathed in 3 months

[Deep13]

7. ew!

Haven't changed clothes, um, ever.

[Deep13]

4. High from photo chemicals is not as good as opium.

[Deep13]

6. Lens not wide enough for Lincoln's hat.

[Schema Thing]

8. Bayonettes and Bellows don't mix!

[Deep13]

9. Small pox scars are difficult to hide from the camera.

[mikeytherat]

10. Couldn't charge extra for "olde time-y" sepia tint

mikey_the_rat

[TahitiNut]

11. Clamps and tripods. Clamps and tripods.

... And taping eyelids open.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Pranksters spraying canned farts into the hood while taking photo

[Richardo]

13. New portable camera still weighs 37 pounds and is the size of a mailbox.

BTW: "ISO 9" :rofl:

[Deep13]

14. Constant interruptions by time travelers looking for Lincoln.

[fudge stripe cookays]

15. All those crazy bereaved families...

wanting a pic of the dead guy IN the group photo. The smell, people!

[fudge stripe cookays]

16. The constant pix of the funeral wreaths...

bring on my hay fever!!

[Deep13]

17. By the time nature pic exposure is done, half of buffaloes have been shot.

[Richardo]

18. 'Spring-loaded boxing glove from the lens' trick already hackneyed

[Richardo]

19. "Pin-up photography" means floor-length skirts hiked 3"

:eyes:

[Deep13]

20. Also, lens not wide enought for skirt hoops.

[Richardo]

25. 'Boudoir' shots: difficult to shoot around the chamberpot

[terrya]

21. Pictures of men in swimming attire were scandalous

Goodness, you could see their ankles! Ye Gods!

[Deep13]

22. William Wegman's stupid daguerreotypes of dogs in costumes.

[Deep13]

26. Gigantic slides require rail-road car sized projector.

[Richardo]

27. Steam-powered motor drives

[underpants]

28. Still no beach volleyball

[Deep13]

29. Not a pet peeve so much as a national tragedy.

[Richardo]

30. "96-hour" photo processing outlet not as popular as hoped

[Deep13]

31. Can't get horse shit smell off tripod feet.

[Richardo]

32. Camera-phone requires flashpowder and operator assistance

[Deep13]

33. Still better than the older camera-telegraph.

[chknltl]

34. Biggest bitch: portability (or lack thereof)

The boxes of unexposed fragile plates, the chemistry needed to develop those plates, that flash-powder needed to stay dry, those heavy tripods, those heavy lenses, that cumbersome wood and metal or fabric camera all combined to make a nightmare when it came to schlepping that gear anywhere. Even today getting around with a modern large format camera and a sturdy carbon fiber tripod is not something a couch potato would be advised to do without getting in a bit of exercise first. A stout, competent assistant is quite useful today but I suspect he would have been even more handy back then.
Like today good help must have been very hard to find. So the biggest bitch of all back then was big dumb assistant constantly sitting on and breaking the photographers cell phone.

[Deep13]

35. 2nd biggest bitch: Barbara Bush

[bikebloke]

36. Fidgety kids

They always looked like a blur. Or maybe that's how they really looked, only to grow out of it.

[Deep13]

37. Customers who die from yellow fever before they settle the bill.

[Richardo]

38. TB patients who cough all over the lens

[Deep13]

39. Dysentery patients who, um, never mind.

[jobycom]

40. Paparazzi clicking Lili Langtry scantily-clad photos without consent.

Imagine the pain of Judge Roy Bean when he saw this disgraceful photo?

[begin_within]

41. There's never anyone there at the "One Month Photo Processing" counter at Woolworth.