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Posted By: Anonymous

Barry,
No,I have yet to make a Dag. In my opinion the beauty of a well made Dag. has yet to be surpassed by any Photographic process old or new.
The major block to doing the process in the classic style is that Mercury Vapors are required to Develop the image(although there are ways to develop a Dag. with filtered light and artifical Light). Also the Silver plated Copper plates used in the process are very hard to come by and each plate has to be polished by hand to a mirror finish.
There are a number of great modern Daguerreian Artists who have overcome all the obstacles and are doing incredible work.
Tim