Daguerreotype: View from bedroom window #1 -- With magnified image detail

This is a quarter-plate daguerreotype of a scene as viewed from my bedroom window. The plate exhibits a long tonal scale, extreme image detail, rich deep blacks with no frosting, and neutral plate color. The video shows the plate before casing and after. Once cased, the plate edges have been bent up to support the cover glass. This technique produces faceted plate edges. The second half of the video shows a comparison of the plate view to the wider scene. It also shows an extreme crop of a very small portion of the plate image which when magnified shows the incredible detail possible in a daguerreotype i.e. font on the rear of a box truck, measuring approximately 0.3mm tall on the plate, viewed from a quarter of a mile away.

Daguerreotype made 12/21/23 by Francesco Fragomeni.

To view the plate resolution clearly, make sure your video playback quality is set to 1080p or higher.
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