Well done James, my reading of the process says you have explained it
perfectly, but I feel you can use the extra 5 words to say"Mercury vapour is
very poisonous"
For that reason I would not want to try it, unless I had a good fume
cupboard, which Andy may have access to.
Jim Thyer
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From: "James Schenken" <jds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE: Daguerreotypes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
Clean the board, polish, plate with silver, polish again, sensitize with
Iodine, expose, fume with mercury vapor, fix with hypo.
That seems to be the process.
James
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From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Davidhazy
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 9:45 PM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: Daguerreotypes
Does anyone have instructions in 25 words or less on how to make a
Daguerreotype? I was thinking that possibly copper clad board used for
printed circuit making might be a suitable start. I wonder how much
mercury
it takes as I have just acquired on the black market several mercury
thyratron tubes. Each contains about 20 thermometer amounts of Hg. I also
have a couple of what are called Farrand lenses - f/.7 at 75 mm focal
length.
So where do I start? - sure I could look it up on the net but then we
would
have nothing to talk about here!!
Andy
BTW, Cunningham, Palcewski and Mitchell - hint!
