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do you have the hasselblad back still? if so how much?

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These are both my latest and my first dags. They all have their problems… but I can’t explain how happy I was to be making them. I made my first dag. on my 25th bday during Takashi Arai’s workshop in Philly.

6x7cm Becquerel Daguerreotype– Overexposed-

4×5″ Mercury Developed Daguerreotype- Not enough guilding solution/ skin contact

4×5″ Mercury Developed Daguerreotype- Model Moved/ mystery spot?

[TScaife84]

Hi, my name is Tyler Scaife. Until recently I was a photo student at the Art Institute of Philadelphia. I have an immense interest in 19th century culture and all things associated with it. That combined with my love of photography and my strong and passionate disliking of the digital photography world… has lead me to dreams of silver plated copper images that no digital camera or computer could think to create. While researching case making techniques I came across a link to this site (thanks Cased Image!) and after looking through some of the threads found a wealth of information that will hopefully put me that much closer to my dreams. A few months ago, I had the pleasure of attending a lecture/demonstration of the daguerreotype process by Takashi Arai at Project Basho. I can’t put into words how just witnessing the process first hand made me feel… As a result I have decided to leave my school -which teaches mostly digital methods of photography- to work and save money to afford supplies and equipment to start working in this medium. If anyone has any websites, books, movies, etc, That would be beneficial for me to look at please send me an email at TylerScaife@gmail.com I am interested in learning everything from image making to case making so any and all information will be incredibly helpful to me and so very appreciated. Thank you allowing me your time. And thank you for providing such an amazing place to learn and converse with amazing artists working in such a remarkable and unique field. – Tyler

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