Why can't you use flashes in museums?
Well at least close!
garyrhook wrote:
Screamin Scott wrote: A quick Google search turned up this...
www.wisegeek.com/why-cant-people-take-fl...raphs-in-museums.htm
Except that it's full of incorrect information. But thanks for playing.
Yeah it was. I love the part about flashes producing enough heat to degrade the works. The heat produced by a modern flash in a large open area would heat the air temp at about 0.000000000000000001%. Well you have to know the exact area size first, but either way even if many people used a flash at once, the temperature change would be negligible. The light is also not going to degrade it. Flahses do not produce any form of strong UV radiation, which is what destroys paints, and pigments. We know this from placing anything in a directly sunny area.
The one part they were correct on, and that is that if there are Copyright concerns then all photography is banned, not just flash. Also I might note that in reality using a flash to photograph art works that are most likely behind glass, means tons of glare on what you are shooting, so it is useless for the most part.
Joves wrote:
garyrhook wrote:
Screamin Scott wrote: A quick Google search turned up this...
www.wisegeek.com/why-cant-people-take-fl...raphs-in-museums.htm
Except that it's full of incorrect information. But thanks for playing.
Yeah it was. I love the part about flashes producing enough heat to degrade the works. The heat produced by a modern flash in a large open area would heat the air temp at about 0.000000000000000001%. Well you have to know the exact area size first, but either way even if many people used a flash at once, the temperature change would be negligible. The light is also not going to degrade it. Flahses do not produce any form of strong UV radiation, which is what destroys paints, and pigments. We know this from placing anything in a directly sunny area.
The one part they were correct on, and that is that if there are Copyright concerns then all photography is banned, not just flash. Also I might note that in reality using a flash to photograph art works that are most likely behind glass, means tons of glare on what you are shooting, so it is useless for the most part.
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