Many of us have heard in the news that the USA is in need of a major infrastructure rebuild. I decided to do my part these last two weeks and have completed two crucial upgrades to Castle Daguerre – power and a fume hood. (Well you didn’t expect me to build a bridge did you?) :) Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | October 12, 2008 | 
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Not much to look at considering the cost I know, but there it is. The clip that holds the ground glass on the B&J Grover 8×10 camera I am “restoring”. I’m missing one. I went on emachineshop.com the other day and had a grand time learning their free design software and mocking up my little brass part. Unfortunately when I ran the price calculator it came out to be Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | June 16, 2008 | Comments (7)
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Hooray for the swap meet! I went to a modest photography swap meet today looking for 8×10 film holders. My big plan was to buy one or two Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | June 7, 2008 | Comments (2)
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Success. I have created a ground glass focusing screen for the 8×10 camera body. Perfect? No. Functional? Yes. Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | June 6, 2008 | Comments (2)
Yesterday’s project was to create a new ground glass for my B&J 8×10 camera. I almost succeeded. Read more »
Daguerreotype Process | andy | June 3, 2008 | Comments (3)
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Courtesy Lib. of Congress
Continuing 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 [...]
I 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revealed that the real story is more complicated – announcement today – perhaps first printed tomorrow, possibly unpublished circulars from earlier dates, first english language announcement, etc., etc., etc.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 [...]
Did 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.
Was 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…
Had 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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