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| + | '''Ferrotypes''' (also known {in the USA} as '''Tintypes''') are photographs made onto black-enamelled iron plates by the [[wet-collodion ]]process. The black background made the transparent areas of the negative image appear black, and the dark, silvered areas were whitened using mercuric bichloride, and so appear light - in the same way as glass [[Ambrotype]]s. | ||
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| + | French photographer Adolphe A Martin was the first to use this process, in 1853. | ||
| + | A dry ferrotype processes later replaced the wet-plate system. | ||
| + | As the process could be carried out inside the camera and needed no drying time, dry ferrotypes were popular with "while-you-wait" beach and street photographers<ref>''Focal Encyclopedia of Photography'', Focal Press, 1976 edition, p.588</ref>. Some cameras were advertised specifically for this purpose, such as the [[Mandel-ette]]. | ||
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| + | Since the image must be viewed from the silvered side of (non-transparent!) plate, the image is left-right reversed (mirror-imaged) - a fault shared with most [[Daguerreotype Process|Daguerreotypes]]. | ||
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| + | The process was used in the US until the early 1940s. | ||
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| + | Ferrotype cameras in a past Breker auction catalogue: | ||
| + | * [http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/8777595 Aptus], for 1¾×2½ inch exposures, by Moore & Co. of Liverpool, c.1910. | ||
| + | * [http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/8777596 One Minute Camera], by the One Minute Camera Co. of Chigago, 1910-20. | ||
| + | * [http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/8777597 Mandel-ette], by the Chicago Ferrotype Co., c.1914. | ||
| + | * [http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/8777598 Unidentified street camera] for ferrotype and postcards, c.1910. | ||
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Ferrotypes (also known {in the USA} as Tintypes) are photographs made onto black-enamelled iron plates by the wet-collodion process. The black background made the transparent areas of the negative image appear black, and the dark, silvered areas were whitened using mercuric bichloride, and so appear light - in the same way as glass Ambrotypes.
French photographer Adolphe A Martin was the first to use this process, in 1853. A dry ferrotype processes later replaced the wet-plate system. As the process could be carried out inside the camera and needed no drying time, dry ferrotypes were popular with "while-you-wait" beach and street photographers[1]. Some cameras were advertised specifically for this purpose, such as the Mandel-ette.
Since the image must be viewed from the silvered side of (non-transparent!) plate, the image is left-right reversed (mirror-imaged) - a fault shared with most Daguerreotypes.
The process was used in the US until the early 1940s.
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- ↑ Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, Focal Press, 1976 edition, p.588
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Ferrotype cameras in a past Breker auction catalogue:
- Aptus, for 1¾×2½ inch exposures, by Moore & Co. of Liverpool, c.1910.
- One Minute Camera, by the One Minute Camera Co. of Chigago, 1910-20.
- Mandel-ette, by the Chicago Ferrotype Co., c.1914.
- Unidentified street camera for ferrotype and postcards, c.1910.
