Beniamino’s gallery page has been updated with all new images. To see the rest of them visit his gallery page.

Over the last year I have developed a mercury pot design to be available commercially and images of it can be seen in the updated gallery for mercury pots by CasedImage.com.
It took 4 prototypes and a lot of effort to get on top of the issues of electrical heat engineering and the thermodynamics of a large steel pot with a small amount of mercury in it. It did jump in at the deep end in designing it to take a maximum format of 8×10 inches, but I wanted a piece of professional equipment that would sustain some of the large of amount of investment required. It allows space for two half plates to be developed at the same time as well as catering for whole plate, which was my own personal preference also. It has a electrical heating system that has a digital controller which uses logarithms to manage a stable temperature. Despite this, another main feature that I sort in the design is that it has a telescoping stand (while keeping the overall footprint very compact) for use with heating by alcohol lamp. Most would use the electrical heating option but I wanted the pot to be able to be used in those rare occasions, in the outdoors/where there is no electrical supply. For those occasions it has a battery powered temperature display, which uses the same temperate sensor as the electrical heat system. It has a double darklside/airlock entry to the interior, made of stainless steel stopped slides and cnc machined Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE). It also has clear acrylic walls to impede the airflow in a fume hood from cooling the heat elements and making their task more difficult.

Daniel Kuczynski has some new images that have been added to his gallery page.

With the artist gallery pages on cdags, we are limiting the number of images on them to 30 per artist. Galleries can be updated at any time but if you reach the limit and want to add more, be sure to say which existing ones you want to be replaced. This way we hope to show the best and latest of works by the artists, please do consider updating your gallery by emailing images to admin@cdags.org

Casey Waters has been keeping busy shooting some new images with his dagwagon.  He has been working with an assortment of plate sizes including 2.25×3.25 from an old Mamiya. To view the latest images check out his gallery page.

Two new plates have been added to Walter Johnson’s gallery, at 80 years old Walter is one of the oldest practising daguerreotypists, I like many, hope to being still making daguerreotypes then, keep up the good work Walter!

A recent plate from Daniel Carrillo has been add to his artist gallery page, accompanying it is this video with his thoughts on the process.

Two new plates have been added to Dominique’s gallery

Two new plates have been added to Dominique’s gallery, one of his garden in Orsay, south of Paris and a portrait of his son, who has the name of distinction – Louis.