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− | '''Ferrotypes''' (also known {in the USA} as '''Tintypes''') are photographs made onto black-enamelled | + | '''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>. | ||
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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]]. | ||
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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]] |
Revision as of 02:57, 29 August 2008
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.
- ↑ Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, Focal Press, 1976 edition, p.588