Recreating the Daguerreotype

Traditional photography looks are very popular, but are they being done correctly?

When image scientist Philip Warren, who works and Dolby Laboratories, and photographer Joseph Rubinstein looked closely at tintypes and other forms of older image making they found that the images weren’t just in black and white, they were sharper, had more local contrast, and had an other worldly quality about them. They discovered that even though modern digital technology had more resolution, the spectrum of light that Daguerreotypes were primarily sensitive to some how created more detailed images. So the two set out to recreate the look and feel of the traditional Daguerreotype with modern technology. The following is the results.