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<p>[QUOTE="Frank, post: 9482852, member: 5421"]Daguerreotypes have a mirror surface that are best viewed either from a slight angle, or while reflecting a dark background. Ambrotypes and tintypes look more like "conventional" photographs and can be vies from any angle with ease. The image shown above, in my opinion, is not a daguerreotype.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have several dags, ambros, and tintypes in my collection, and several years ago, was a practicing collodion photographer. Always wanted to learn the dag process but never did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Frank, post: 9482852, member: 5421"]Daguerreotypes have a mirror surface that are best viewed either from a slight angle, or while reflecting a dark background. Ambrotypes and tintypes look more like "conventional" photographs and can be vies from any angle with ease. The image shown above, in my opinion, is not a daguerreotype. I have several dags, ambros, and tintypes in my collection, and several years ago, was a practicing collodion photographer. Always wanted to learn the dag process but never did.[/QUOTE]
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