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[bospress.net]

I hear that the best way to get silver coated plates it to get copper and electroplate them yourself. I cannot imagine that it would take too much silver for a plate. Still, when digital photos are free and instant, it is odd to want to pick up a process where each photo costs $25 and takes 8 hours to prepare, photograph and process....
Bill

 

[mjp]

Ha ha - well sure, electroplating doesn't add any extra work to the process. You may as well hand-forge your own copper plates and haul everything around on the back of a donkey too. But I know it's attractive - hell, even fun in a meditative kind of steampunk, DIY way - to use old processes. It's why some people suffer with typewriters or hand ground ink.

So I fully expect to visit Delaware one day and see a tank full of copper plates bubbling away in your garage electroplater.

 

[roni]

[...] let me ask Daisy about it. [...]

she's fine with it.
go ahead, kids.

 

[mjp]

Now you tell me. ;)

The old one was up all morning.

 

[ROC]

Daguerreotypes. Mercury. Hats off. Mad hatter. Sifting through the madness. Bukowski.

See? You're not off topic.

Carry on.