tintype v. daguerreotype

[Paul T.]

I've posted this before - a NY Times fashion shoot on tintype from last year. I love the little trailer the photog uses for processing:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/11/11/fashion/20091112-codes-slideshow_index.html

 

[Vince Lupo]

For those of you who'd like to start making your own daguerreotypes....

http://www.westlicht-auction.com/index.php?lang=3

 

[Vince Lupo]

what a rip off!! 🙄

i can sell anyone the same thing, brand new, made to order for 450 000 EUR 😛 PM me to place your orders!

Think there's a cheap Russian copy out there somewhere????

 

[Roger Hicks]

ironically Joseph Charles (commonly called Jacquard) was weaving pictures digitally with punch-cards before all these processes were discovered, a resoloution of around 150x300dpi was possible, 1815'ish

sadly the camera needed an artist sat inside it to capture the image … never really caught on

For that matter, digital imaging can be attributed to Bain (1846), Caselli (1845) and Bidwell (1881). But the superiority of silver halide was clear...

Cheers,

R.

 

[charjohncarter]

I like to look at tintypes, but I would never do one. I do like the way flash bulbs look over electronic strobes (really). Maybe some tintypes with flash bulbs.

 

[Sparrow]

For that matter, digital imaging can be attributed to Bain (1846), Caselli (1845) and Bidwell (1881). But the superiority of silver halide was clear...

Cheers,

R.

http://www.ruralmissouri.org/09pages/09MaySilkArt.html

not bad for 30 years earlier

 

[crawdiddy]

How long till we are complaining that our digital cameras are not shooting the "daguerroetype look"? 😀

Is there a daguerrotype setting on the M9?

 

[flip]

daguerrotype in the lead!

 

[Vince Lupo]

daguerrotype in the lead!

Must be the mercury vapours.....

 

[pachuco]

Must be the mercury vapours.....

Haha!! 😀

I like the scratched up look of tintypes. Makes me feel better about my film scans.

 

[jke]

My friend, Jerry Spagnoli, does daguerreotypes. He was the technical consultant on Chuck Close's recent series of daguerreotype portraits. And my sister-in-law does daguerreotypes also, along with quite large (20-30" or more on longest side) cyanotypes by contact printing with digital negatives. Both conduct workshops on daguerreotypes.

Speaking of autochromes, if you are ever in Paris, stop in at the Musee Albert Kahn, a banker who sent photographers around the world to collect images using the autochrome process.

 

[FS Vontz]

I voted daguerrotype because I'd heard of it before

 

[ethics_gradient]

I can imagine all the fisticuffs this discussion must have generated back in the day. Bowler hats flying everywhere, I'll bet.

 

[Vince Lupo]

Personally I'll take Platinum/ Palladium....