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I looked around on the internet, on the forum as well (what was mentioned above) and I didn’t get clear answer for my questions:

If you are making electroplating at home, what kind of formula/recipe are you using?

How do you handle cyanide based bath? How I need to protect myself from it?

or just a silver nitrate and potassium cyanide bath is enough?

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Hi Daniel,

I saw your picture on flickr what you made on this Sunday (about the bicycles). The change in the tones and colors are visible. Good!

Thank you for the link and about the informations. I will search for those lamps and I will buy them soon.

Thank you!

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Thank you for the answer! I will try this kind of lamps.

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I saw, this topic is about 2 years old, but I hope someone is already found the right lamp for indoor lighting (not for development).

Because the weather is cloudy now in here, it’s difficult to reach good exposure time and the exposure time is changing randomly during exposition, so I’m thinking about an indoor light as well to make Becquerel dags.

How strong is sunlight in Watt on the Earth? (is it 1000W?) So about how strong (Watt) the light source have to be to able to measure about 14EV from 1m or 2m from the lamp?

Some of the fluorescent lamps can be good in nm, but they are too weak, need to use a lot from them.

Anyone using LED?

How about metal halide lamps? I was searching for metal halide lamps and I found Marine Aquarium lamps:

http://www.ushio.com/products/petcare/aqualite.htm

http://www.marinedepot.com/400_Watt_10000K_%28CWA%29_Metal_Halide_Bulb_German_Ushio_Mogul_Base_400_Watt_Single_Ended_Metal_Halide_Light_Bulbs-Ushio-MB8418-FILTBUMHSEFW-vi.html

 

I was looking for the 10000K one and it’s possible to buy a 400W and 1000W from it. What do you think about them? It can be working?

 

and this one? http://www.ushio.com/products/generallighting/mh-ultraarc.htm

 

Have a sunny day! 🙂

Máté

 

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My latest Becquerel daguerreotype.

Title: “Kiss in mirror”

It will be part of a series, like someone was closed in a mirror.

I made a video about this picture.

 

 

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Yes, to remove deep scratches, but I’m using a copper polishing liquid. Silver plater told me, on copper I can use it, no problem.

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For silver polishing (only hand) I’m just using a piece of wood, which bottom is even, same size like my plate and to hold the plate I’m using double sided tape.

For copper polishing, double sided tape on a big surface (table top, floor) to able to use sander.

So my isn’t really a peace of art, I made them. Maybe the others can give you better ideals.

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That band is because of the UV yellow (8layers) development. It’s looks like an overexposed area in a normally developed dag.

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I just keep watching the image: 2layres of orange: more grays, but nearly no white… Or maybe just because orange can let go thru more light and just cause grays?

Hmm, new ideals, new questions.

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Thank you!

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The brown mark on the middle wasn’t the chopper, I think I was some red rouge left from polishing. So I could make an other picture. On the picture you can see a kind of cabbage.

At the highlights it’s overexposed. I didn’t concentrate on the lights well enough. I think B-dags can’t record big differences between bright and dark areas.

Do you have any experience, B-dags how many stops difference can record well between white/bright and dark areas?

It was deep purple this time and at the edges of the dag, dark yellow (where is blue now).

In the first post I wrote, I have 2 500w head. This time in the beginning one of them died, so I lowered the distance for about 25-30cm and I developed for longer time, for 3 and a half hours. The result in colors, tones is like in my first dag about the orchid. It’s still a little bit brown in the middle, but I think I will keep this dag.

 

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When I was searching for plate holders, this topic was helpful for me, to get information about Linhof 4×5 plate holder.

I was searching for more on the internet and I found 2 other 4×5 plate holders.

On my picture, left hand side: 4×5 MPP plate holder

right hand side: 4×5 Trixale

MPP (what I’m using and I like it) made in England (wooden and metal). I contacted with The MPP Users’ Club to get more informations about it. They told me, the external size is like every other film holder, but the correct distance of the “film” from the ground glass can be different, because they made international standard size and different, special size as well. Nobody can decide which one is which. I was lucky, my MPP plate holder is in the right size and fit in to my Cambo, make sharp images in the right focal point.

Trixale (I haven’t try it yet) made in London (plastic and some metal) . It’s hard to pull out the dark slide so I will need to fix this problem somehow. I measure it and I think it has the same inner and outer size like my MPP. I couldn’t find much information about this one.

 

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I made an other one today. I think, because I reached the copper, the plate is brown on the middle and the image is too dark! During development I couldn’t see strong image, like the first one was, so I stopped the development after 1 and a half hours. I think that is why the image is blue, underdeveloped.

Now I don’t have other silver plate, so I will start to prepare new copper plates. 1 or 2 more weeks and I can make new dags again…

 

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Sorry because of the late answer, but I tried to make an other picture on my second plate. The final image was too dark and full of water marks so tomorrow I will polish it again. I hope, I will still have enough silver on it. I polished it hard because of some scratches and at the moment I have just 2 plate…

I used 6 layers of red film.

Sorry, but I don’t have a light meter (I want to save money for vacuum pump and chamber ). I use my canon camera to get exposure time and f-number(5.6). Then I convert this to EV and then to the “right” exposure time. So I could check it like this: I put my hand under the filters (2cm) and I checked the light on it. It was 1/60, f=5.6, which is EV11.

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Are you wearing full face gas mask or half face? A company want to sell to me a full face gas mask, because they think it’s necessary to use when you are handle iodine. Am I need a full face gas mask?

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What I found is this: HAuCl4.3H2O

So, will this work as well?

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Thank you for your answer. I don’t have a fume hood at the moment, just a shed in the garden. I want to start to make B-dags first.

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Is it necessary to wear gas mask when we using/handle iodine? Is anyone wearing it? Or just when you work with mercury.

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ohh $50 is much cheaper then I found. Maybe I found the most expensive one. I think, I need to find an other shop in Europe.

From where do you buy it?

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-Because of the price of the gold chloride, is anyone could find the solution how to replace gold chloride with something else?

-Without gold chloride just pout the b-dag behind the glass and forget about protection. After a few years the image still will be on the surface?

-We should use gold chloride to protect dags. What about to use spray lacquer? Artist use those spray lacquer to protect carbon or graphite drawings. Is anyone has experience with it?

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Hello everyone,

It’s time to introduce myself. My name is Máté Bakody. I’m Hungarian. I gradated as a photographer . After school I spent 4 and a half years abroad (England and Taiwan). I started to be disappointed in the world of digital photography. I realized “photography is changing” and I didn’t like it. I started to search old, unique processes and this time I found some informations about daguerreotype. I started to feel, I need to do this. I spent lots of time with reading about this process, but I sill need to study a lot!

A few weeks ago I moved back to Hungary. From this year I will go to school again to study something different then photography, a different profession.

I will do photography as a second profession.

Hopefully soon I can start to make my first dag…

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Thank you for your reply.

Yes, it’s a good ideal to build a fume hood (without filter) and it wont be expensive. On the internet I found some articles about this.

I hope my neighbours and my family will be in safety as well…

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Hi!

I wont have money to buy fume hood, so I want to use gas mask for my protection. Is it enough?

Is anyone else using just gas mask and no fume hood?

How can I know, that I need to change the filter in the mask? or how often I need to change it?

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Thank you!

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Dear John,

Can you post here a picture about your vacuum desiccator? What kind of vacuum pump do you have?

Thank you.

Máté

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