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That was a weird musical choice for the intro

right angle lens?

No mercury fumes, not real daguerreotype.

While I knew what Daguerreotype photography was, I did not know or understand the process involved. This was a great showcase of that process. Many thanks. Very well presented.

I watched your Johna documentary...please consider using a 3d camera or their may be another for camer History chanel & the brothers Oak island would know... you have to use at the site... preserve forever....

What video camera did you guys use in 2012?

Wow the video quality is good for a video from 2012

Companion documentation for this video is available at www.si.edu/mci/english/learn_more/taking_care/index.html (Furniture Care and Handling).

Sadly the link on 1:30 does not work anymore. the site is still there, but flash isnt used anymore in any modern browser

I find the funniest statement is, "Fixing is simple, using sodium thiosulfate." That was the process/chemistry that alluded chemists for over 100 years. Sure, now that we know the answer, it's all so simple. Lol

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Extraordinary. It's impressive to see the steps involved - one can only imagine the trial and error involved before the process was perfected. Ironically, the era of the daguerreotype lasted barely twenty years before being superceded by more efficient processes. 🐧

Thanks for investigating these techniques and making this video. Do you know of any universities or non-profits which have developed techniques for digitally copying or accurately reproducing daguerreotype images?

Are we seeing a 90 degree lens attachment? 1:30 I'm no Carleton Watkins, so I'm trying to figure out what type of camera can take a photograph of the Capitol without being pointed at it. I'm not asking for a friend - I'm asking for ME! ☺

Could you have chosen more inappropriate, irritatingly hipster music? 😬

This is great!

moth balls are toxic

The narration was read by a very unprofessional "reader". Why didn´t you put in some money to get an actor or more fluent reader???

Does anyone know if you can still buy unexposed plates? I have a couple of box cameras and want to try shooting with one just for the experience

Don't read a presentation.

How do I get into this industry? This is my Dream! I’d love to do this for a living

So damn cool...

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Glad to see that Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre's invention is still alive and strong after almost 200 years. Although daguerreotype was extremely popular in America which could explain this yankee doodle music style, a french music from the 19th century would have been more adequate, thanks.

love this!

Do you evaporate all the gold chloride off with the flame? What is the first sentisation than second. Thanks.

thanks

ambrotypes are on glass. Dags often have a glass cover over the silver plate.

This series is fantastic! I am however curious, for a small institution are there direct benefits to creating a DagHuas enclosure over a standard foam core rig? For standard DSLR imaging and visible light there doesn't really seem to be a noticeable difference. Is it simplythat the DagHuas provides confidence in replicable results?

What is the music in the backround? MCISmithsonian

Brilliant work, so amazing to see today's world photographed in a 19th century style photographic standard, good to see there's still keen photographers out there making daguerrotype and wet plate photos! :D Here's a challenge I suggest to the photographer, make a trichrome colour photo from 3 daguerreotype photos of a subject, each colour filtered red, green and blue, then scan them onto PC and combine the channels in Photoshop which will result in a colour photo, worth trying!

One brave soul took one of these cameras into the wild frontier of Indiana in the 1830's. I saw the pic of the Sauk&Fox dude he took. The dude has white horizontal stripes on his stern face.

Interesting. I had always thought the Daguerreotype was on glass. It may be that I have a very small negative instead of a Daguerreotype. I am learning as I go.