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'''Ferrotypes''' (also known {in the USA} as '''Tintypes''') are photographs made onto black-enamelled tin 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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'''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.
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A dry ferrotype processes later replaced the wet-plate system.
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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>.
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Since the image must 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]].
  
French photographer Adolphe Martin was the first to use this process.
 
 
The process was used in the US until the early 1940s.
 
The process was used in the US until the early 1940s.
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[[Category: Photographic processes]]
 
[[Category: Photographic processes]]

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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].

Since the image must 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.

  1. Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, Focal Press, 1976 edition, p.588