Received a very kind return email from Charlie Schreiner today giving me the go-ahead to use the “The Daguerreotypist” title for this web page. It was very energizing Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | April 30, 2008 | 
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Still more web browsing. I am trying to figure out how to do this wonderful thing without spending too much money Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | April 29, 2008 | Comments Off
Nothing like a weekend to move things forward. I decided yesterday that I wanted to go see some Daguerreotypes for inspiration. I spent some time Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | April 27, 2008 | Comments Off
Yesterday and today I only had enough time to do some more web searching on various websites. There is quite a bit of material out there Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | April 26, 2008 | Comments Off
I had quite an interesting conversation with Mike King from Angel Gilding this morning. I sent him an email yesterday asking about the thickness of silver created on glass Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | April 24, 2008 | Comments (1)
Courtesy Lib. of Congress
Today is (more or less) the day that in 1839 saw the public announcement of the daguerreotype process. Thank you Louis and Joseph!
Having some time off from work. Have created what (I hope!) are the final cutting templates for the stainless steel dag plate project. Also picked up an odd Packard type shutter on e-Bay that I may try to replicate in acrylic. Also spending some time on finalizing the sixth plate camera and experimenting with creating [...]
Two straight days of prepping plans for laser cutting. Steel plate cutting templates, lens mounts and film holder mounts for the B&J 8×10 and some experimental 35mm plate holders made out of 1/32 ABS. Not quite done, but should be good to go when Pagoda Arts reopens after vacation time. A great leap forward.
Did a dry run today of the new plate cutting templates at Tech Shop. Ran into some problems with the first cut and had to back off on the production run. Need to make some template adjustments. The good news is that the cutting is three times as precise as it needs to be. Finished [...]
Have been slowly moving forward with my experiment to create stainless steel based plates. Today I plan to finalize the cutting templates so I can cut up the 1′x2′ piece I had plated. The plan is to use 1/16″ acrylic laser-cut templates to guide the cutting on the 40″ hydraulic shear at TechShop. The real [...]
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