Hello potential Dagrurreotypsts:
Here is an URL for The Daguerreian Society.
http://www.daguerre.org/
I have formula for silver plating the copper plates somewhere and will post
it as soon as I can find it.
Please let me know if you are interested and I will mail you copy jpeg
format. As I will scan in the procedure. I would like to post it here but
we are not allowed to send attachments apparently.
My email is platinumprint@mediaone.net
Sincerely,
Jonathan
P.S. you may find the formula in the Daguerreian Society for all I know it
has been awhile since I last perused it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred P. Arnold [mailto:fparnold@balihai.uchicago.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 8:32 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
> Subject: Daguerrotype development
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Chemical question: The basic dageurrotype process involves making silver
> halides on a silver plate, exposing, and then developing with fumes of
> mercury, which presumably makes mercury-silver amalgam, fixing, and then
> toning.
>
> Why couldn't a standard developer, such as Metol or Pyro, be used instead?
> Does it attack the plate, not develop a sufficiently strong image, or is
> it just a method that was never employed before daguerrotypes fell from
> favor?
>
> -Fred
>
> "No science has ever made Frederick P. Arnold, Jr.
> more rapid progress in a A&HPRC, U. of Chicago
> shorter time than Chemistry." 5640 S. Ellis Ave
> -Martin Heinrich Kloproth, 1791 Chicago, IL 60637
>
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