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.
@leahbromlow75852 жыл бұрын
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....
@divinodayacap33132 жыл бұрын
What video camera did you guys use in 2012?
@divinodayacap33132 жыл бұрын
Wow the video quality is good for a video from 2012
@inclinedplane01922 жыл бұрын
Companion documentation for this video is available at www.si.edu/mci/english/learn_more/taking_care/index.html (Furniture Care and Handling).
@pugofstardock2 жыл бұрын
Sadly the link on 1:30 does not work anymore. the site is still there, but flash isnt used anymore in any modern browser
@fstopPhotography2 жыл бұрын
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
@catherinemagsino86612 жыл бұрын
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@TheStockwell3 жыл бұрын
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 Ironically, the era of the daguerreotype lasted barely twenty years before being superceded by more efficient processes. 🐧
@Anonymous-it5jw3 жыл бұрын
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?
@TheStockwell3 жыл бұрын
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! ☺
@okaro65952 жыл бұрын
Daguerreotypes are mirror images so with a mirror one can get a normal image.
@TheStockwell2 жыл бұрын
@@okaro6595 That I already know. 👍 What I'm seeing, however, is a camera facing right but capturing an image that's 90 degrees to left. It's as if the lens has a periscope lens, enabling the camera to be pointed straight ahead while the lens is pivoted to photograph something to the left. Great for around-the-corner spy work!
@calvinf92182 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking he forgot to record the actual exposure so just took this clip real quick as he was leaving to show what it would've looked like.
@barrymoore4470 Жыл бұрын
@@calvinf9218 That's a likely explanation. The aperture of a camera must be pointed towards the subject (in this case, the Capitol), in order for the subject's image to be captured.
@TheStockwell3 жыл бұрын
Could you have chosen more inappropriate, irritatingly hipster music? 😬
@dansonbrodymusic4 жыл бұрын
This is great!
@brianwhite18164 жыл бұрын
moth balls are toxic
@psblad26675 жыл бұрын
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???
@goal154wd5 жыл бұрын
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
@stinkybritches45405 жыл бұрын
goal154wd for this process? I’m not certain. One would probably need to have their own copper coated. But I do know that dry plates are still being made. A fella named Jason Lane is coating glass on a small scale.
@garge76763 жыл бұрын
There was a fella making silver plated copper sheets. It's around 500 bucks for 12 1/6th plates. You're better off sticking to Tintypes
@jude9996 жыл бұрын
Don't read a presentation.
@ericaanne19bebe6 жыл бұрын
How do I get into this industry? This is my Dream! I’d love to do this for a living
@lancehurley97436 жыл бұрын
So damn cool...
@ALVOS75CHANNEL6 жыл бұрын
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@goognamgoognw66376 жыл бұрын
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.
@Roger__Wilco5 жыл бұрын
Hardcore 90s techno would have been more appropriate, thanks :D
@kaplanemily7 жыл бұрын
love this!
@fez33278 жыл бұрын
Do you evaporate all the gold chloride off with the flame? What is the first sentisation than second. Thanks.
@tehbieber5 жыл бұрын
The first sensitization is iodine, then bromine. There's also another round of iodine before loading the plate that they cut off. The gilding solution isn't evaporated all the way off, just brought up to steaming temperature for a few minutes and then washed off
@beibeimiao23278 жыл бұрын
thanks
@jk85179 жыл бұрын
ambrotypes are on glass. Dags often have a glass cover over the silver plate.
@brittanybradley44259 жыл бұрын
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?
@camdenritter76529 жыл бұрын
What is the music in the backround? MCISmithsonian
@troysvisualarts11 жыл бұрын
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!
@miltonroberts79486 жыл бұрын
The filters should be Red, Blue, and Green. The primary colors of LIGHT.You just described the secret of TECHNICOLOR.
@paulosande80373 жыл бұрын
It is an interesting idea, but it might not work. Daguerreotypes are orthochromatic interms of spectral sensivity. This means that they have a native sensivity from ~350 nm to ~500nm (from UV light to violet/blue light in the visible spectrum). So you will have a nice blue channel image, a very faint green channel image and a blank plate for the red channel. To work you would have to compensate the exposition for the green and red ones in theory..
@troysvisualarts3 жыл бұрын
@@paulosande8037 I now know of a way to create a 3 RGB daguerrotype, seeing B&W is uniform, you can split a colour image to 3 B&W RGB channel images and print them. And then photograph each printed image and then digitally scan the 3 dags and tint them their respective primary colours and add them and you will end up with a colour image, I did that with 1940s orthochromatic film using the mentioned method and it worked well.
@acerb456611 жыл бұрын
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.
@TheStockwell3 жыл бұрын
No offense intended, but the daguerreotype process wasn't made public until 1839, so that "brave soul" must've been on the ball to have brought a camera "the wild frontier of Indiana in the 1830's."
@Auctioncollector12 жыл бұрын
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.