Are Daguerreotype Included in Wet Plate Threads

[Tin Can]

A few questions

If not, where do they belong?

Many were NOT LF so they must go to where?

May as well add smaller than 4X5 WET Plates to this question

[Jason Greenberg Motamedi]

Probably not, unless it is renamed "19th century processes" or something like that. Technically they have very little overlap, and the skills and equipment needed are quite different.

I don't know how many active daguerreotypists there are on this forum... there certainly are not too many in the world. The Contemporary Daguerreotypes Forum (http://www.cdags.org/) has not been very active for the past few years.

[goamules]

They're not wetplates any more than a polaroid is 35mm slide film.

For every 100,000 digital photographers there is 1 wetplater. For every 3 million there is a daguerrotype photographer. Creating a new area would be an empty repository needing content. Flickr has plenty of groups where you can just upload any dags you find, collect, etc.

[Tin Can]

Ok, just wondering

So I figure about 100 world wide

From 3.8 Billion smartphone users as they all have cameras

Any Daguerreotype practitioners here?

[Jason Greenberg Motamedi]

Me.
Your estimate seems correct, about 100 active Daguerreotypists worldwide, and perhaps 30 times that who took a workshop.

[cowanw]

Although there are likely lots of people who admire, collect and could discuss Daguerreotypes.

[Monty McCutchen]

Jason is too kind/humble to say it, but he is an unbelievable Daguerreotypist. A talented photographer who doesn’t get talked about enough.

Monty

[Drew Bedo]

I took a Dag workshop back in the early 2Ks led by Jerry Spagnoli.. He was great and it was fun, but I couldn't really discern the feint color tint of a properly coated plate.

[Jason Greenberg Motamedi]

Thanks Monty. Did I give you the Daguerreotype I made of you? If not I should.

[Monty McCutchen]

That’s how I know how great you are—you made me look presentable in polite company! Hope you and yours are well. I miss getting up to the great northwest!

Monty