Monthly Archives: May 2008

Exposure Guidelines Revisited

I’ve been experimenting with my recently acquired lens this week. Having a maximum aperture of f/5.6 I didn’t expect that the Schneider Super Symmar XL 150mm would be terribly much faster than my stalwart Ektar f/6.3. True, the new Schneider … Continue reading

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Excellent Daguerreotype Sensitizing / Fuming Box!

Great pictures of a contemporary daguerreotypist’s iodine fuming box. These images are over at a new blog called The Daguerreotypist by Andy.

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Daguerreotype Preservation and Restoration

Allow me to plug the following: Dennis Waters, Fine Daguerreotypes.  The Waters family is well know in the daguerreotype community for scholarly research and restoration services.  Just take a glance at their restoration page and you’ll be amazed; I am. … Continue reading

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Jerry Spagnoli Teaches Becquerel

From 7/27/2008 – 8/1/2008 daguerreotype master (pater familias, perhaps) Jerry Spagnoli will be teaching the Becquerel method of daguerreotypie at a workshop at The Photographer’s Formulary. I attended a similar workshop in North Carolina a few years ago and it … Continue reading

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Database Update and a few tweaks

I recently updated this site to a new version of WordPress, the content management system that I use.  Everything seems to be working fine but please drop me a line if you see any problems.  I also tweaked the code … Continue reading

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