Interesting Daguerrotype Article

<p>http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/ff_daguerrotype_panorama/</p>

<p>Neat. Thanks for the link.</p>

<p>In the last few months I have been reading up more and more on old photography techniques. Much is this had been a result of using a photoshop plugin called BW styler. I love the effect of Daguerrotye. Thanks for the link.</p>

<p>The greatest beauty of a fine Daguerreotype is the silver surface, not the detail sometimes recorded. This beauty cannot be reproduced on paper or computer screens. The detail in the Cincinnati panorama is good, considering that the first official Daguerreotype camera of nine years earlier used a lens much like those of the better box cameras. By 1848 better lenses were available, although they have improved even more since then. Their design involved laborious mathematical calculations in those days long before calculators. <br>

The ability to correctly focus the Cincinnati images deserves much praise. Daguerreotype plates were blue sensitive, and the lenses weren't apochromatic. This meant the focus of the visual image and the focus that exposed the Daguerreotype did not coincide. The photographer could either focus the already dim image through a blue filter, or mechanically offset the focus of the camera to compensate for this. A photographer's life was not easy in the age of iron men and wooden cameras.</p>