From: Robert W. Schramm (schrammrus@hotmail.com)
Date: 07/27/02-05:38:43 PM Z
Paul,
Brass is fine. Make sure you get a heavy silver coating.
I have heard of contact printing but I think you would have to use a
positive. The surface of a fumed plate is very delicate. You can't touch it
so I don't know how it is done.
Bob Schramm
>From: Paul Martinez <paulmartinez@telocity.com>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Daguerreotype Question
>Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 07:45:28 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi-
>
>I'm in the process (still) of assembling equipment for
>a foray in the wild and wooly world Dags and I have two
>general questions...
>
>Does the material of the plate that going to get coated
>eventually matter? There is a place in St Louis that
>will silver plate brass instead of copper and I would
>think that it shouldn't matter as long as the polishing
>is good.
>
>Also, (and this is kind of a dumb question) can I
>contact print with regular negs instead of retrofitting
>a camera or building something new? What does you lose
>if you contact print (other than the inherent cache of
>toting a handmade camera around)?
>
>thank you.
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