Daguerreotype

Photography has become so easy these days and becoming cheaper as well. Back in the day, not everyone could afford it and if you could, the process was not the simplest and required skills and knowledge to pull off.

This video takes us way back to the first photograph and the development of the Daguerreotype – an early photographic process. It’s extremely cool to just think of what the inventors and the users must have gone thru to discover the daguerreotype.

The daguerreotype (French: daguerréotype) was the first commercially successful photographic process. The image is a direct positive made in the camera on a silvered copper plate