29 Oct
2012
29 Oct
'12
2:02 p.m.
On 10/29/2012 01:35 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I've wondered if anyone makes daguerreotypes nowadays. The thought of
boiling mercury for developing might put some people off.
(It's also akin to the way silverplating was done before
electroplating--coat the object with an amalgam of silver then boil the
mercury off. The lives of the workers so employed were apparently
noticeably shorter than the average worker.)
--Chuck
I'll bet that if you search hard enough, you
can still find people who
make tintypes.
or EVEN people who run CP/M!!!