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My wife took this tintype of me this weekend.
It was captured on a modern exact reproduction of an 1850's ferrotype camera, this was a 14 second exposure, the chemicals are of the same type as used in the 1850's and really smell out the house.



*PS - tried it with my finger over the guard, I preferred the way it looked with my finger resting on the trigger - foolhardy, irresponsible, dangerous and amateurish - just like the civil war pics from the 1860's - that and it's dummy ammo

Still cool!!

Later 42rocker

Great picture! Are tintypes normally reversed (left-to-right)?

Ha - all the enthusiasts spot the reversal, yes, it is a mirror image.
(or, the MG42 went Russian.)

Mirror image happens all of the time.

Later 42rocker

That is really cool. Like being immortalized in a modern antique. Now you need to put on a uniform and show the kids how grandpa looked just like you.

SE BUSCA....VIVO O MUERTO!..............great picture Pit......Phil

roadrunner wrote:That is really cool. Like being immortalized in a modern antique. Now you need to put on a uniform and show the kids how grandpa looked just like you.

Grandpa (Great grandpa), would not have approved of such expensive playthings.
(Glasgow, Scotland - 1918)



Phil - the pic's fun, the wife is a talented kid and whatever you think of the pic, she made me look cooler than I am, lol.

Another fantastic pic. Thanks for sharing.