Silver or Gold?
I sent an email yesterday to a silversmith in the city to ask about getting 5-4″x5″ copper plates coated to 12 microns on one side with pure silver Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | May 27, 2008 | 
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Painting and Polishing
Household chores have taken the bear’s share of the weekend so Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | May 26, 2008 | Comments (3)
Waiting and Studying
The news came this morning that the camera body had been shipped. Small frisson of excitement…. Doesn’t do Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | May 23, 2008 | Comments (2)
Hold the Cardboard Camera!
Well it looks like eBay (and Midwest Photo Exchange) have saved me for the moment from experimenting with cardboard cameras. I found an old B&J Grover 8×10 monorail camera body and picked it up for $140. Like most things that come in a bit cheaper Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | May 21, 2008 | Comments Off
A New (to me) Resource
Thanks to Jonathan Danforth for the link to Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | May 20, 2008 | Comments (2)
From History
Courtesy Lib. of Congress
Dag Diary
- Shutters & etc.
January 15, 2012 | 12:16 pmContinuing my progress on preparing to do 4×5 daguerreotypes. The camera currently only has a “hat shutter” so I have been looking at available shutters for my large lens – the only new one available seems to be the Packard shutter. This item, still made by the son of the creator is available for $850 [...]
- Daguerreotype Announcement?
January 6, 2012 | 6:21 amI was going to write a short post about today being the anniversary of the first announcement of the daguerreotype, but a half hour of research revealed that the real story is more complicated – announcement today – perhaps first printed tomorrow, possibly unpublished circulars from earlier dates, first english language announcement, etc., etc., etc. So [...]
- Plastics Testing – Happy New Year!
January 1, 2012 | 6:23 pmDid some testing of liquid bromine on various kinds of plastics today. Only PTFE was non-reactive as far as I could tell. Have plastic samples now sitting in a container with iodine crystals.
- Rubylith
December 30, 2011 | 7:47 amWas doing some research on Rubylith and added a very short article about it to the CDags Wiki. I need to find more people to help add articles to the wiki, it is still pretty threadbare…
- Fellow Explorer
December 28, 2011 | 6:20 amHad a nice inquiry e-mail about the sliding fume box from Javier Camara in Japan. It is always good to hear from fellow daguerreian explorers. I advised him that it was still a work in progress ( the word progress being used in a rather optimistic manner). I still haven’t charged up the bromine side of the box [...]
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