Re: Flash photography (was Re: coins)

[Corun MacAnndra <corun@access.digex.net>]

Poster: Corun MacAnndra <corun@access.digex.net>

Odinson wrote:
>
>Somebody please explain to me the reasoning behind this flashbulb rule. As
far
>as I know cameras didn't come around until the mid-1800s. 

I think you kinda explained that to yourself there. Cameras didn't come
around till the mid 1800s, therefore cameras and their accompanying flash
attachments are out of period. They are also annoyingly instrusive at the
best of times (I don't even like them going off when I'm expecting it in a
setting that's appropriate). But in what is supposed to be a medaeval
setting where such things wouldn't occur..... Hence the rule.

>I would be willing
>to bet returning crusaders did a bit of smoking. The Hookah pipe is quite
old.

I'd be willing to bet that of the majority substances that were smoked in
hookahs, tobacco was way down on the list (it was a New World discovery if
I'm not mistaken, Sir Walter Raleigh and all that, well after the last
Crusade in any case). I'd also be willing to bet that there were very few
if any Crusaders who smoked hookahs. Besides, when was the last time you
saw a bunch of folks at an SCA event go outside and sit around a hookah?
Probably not since the early 70s, and it probably wasn't tobacco then
either. ;-)

In service,
Corun


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