: About Me

Before 1884 when Kodak's founder, George Eastman supplied flexible film for cameras, early photographers loaded a camera one wet plate at a time for each image. A Daguerreotype was a widely used early photographic process that was first announced by Frenchman, Louis Daguerre in 1839. France made it free for the whole world to use, except in England where a license had to be purchased. The product was a single photograph on a silver plate, or on a silver-plated sheet of copper or brass. No reprints were possible and the image was reversed as in a mirror, but the detail was excellent. Prior ...