Talk:Daguerreotype
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Road-in-the-sky - very good contributions, thank you. You clearly know much more about early photography than me. However I'd take issue with the claim that the Daguerreotype is "universally recognized to have been the first process to permenently record & affix a photographic image." Some of the Niepce images from the 1820s have survived to this day. -- Infrogmation
The US Library of Congress's images of their daguerreotype collection (last link in the current article; [1] (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html)) is copyright-free according to the link from that page, so someone with some image-editing prowess might incorporate some example ones here? The portraits might be useful sources for images for other articles too. -- Delirium
I don't want to get tangled with edit conflicts. Are you ready for the copyedit? --Vicki Rosenzweig
- Yes I am ! --Ericd 22:11 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Despite my respect for Abraham Lincoln (not Abe please !). Don't you think a self portrait of Daguerre would be more appropriate ? --Ericd 20:50, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
The only so-called experts who think the Kaplan deguerrotype is of Lincoln are the people who own it and have been attempting to sell it on ebay for $20 million since 1998. Their authentication consists of manipulating the sizes of various images until they can show some alignement of physical features. Unfortunately, they completely ignore the differing depths of field in the pictures (i.e.,they were taken from different distances away from the subject); consequently, this comparison doesn't prove anything. Their web site is at http://www.lincolnportrait.com/authenti.htm for those currious. Anyway, I point all this out in suppurt of Ericd's comments above, and wholeheartedly agree that a self portrait of Daguerre would be much more appropriate and not infringe on the neutral point of view aspect that the Kaplan photo does. mark 04:46, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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Two picky points:-
Didn't the Daguerre process need the silver plate to be exposed to iodine vapour first ?(to give some silver halide!). (See description in Coe's 'Birth of Photography' Ash & Grant 1976)
Morse didn't invent the telegraph - Wheatstone and others did that - he just devised the eponymous code to send on it!
I may edit (or others if they so wish)
Linuxlad 08:45, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Daguerreogenic
I have some serious doubts that Daguerreotypes ever existed before photographs. If they were, why wasn't the term "daguerreogenic" ever used? Thank about it. --Paraphelion 22:57, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
