- calotype process
- ['kalətʌɪp]noun historical an early photographic process in which negatives were made using paper coated with silver iodide.OriginC19: from Gk kalos 'beautiful' + type.
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Calotype — or talbotype is an early photographic process introduced in 1841 by Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide. The term calotype comes from the Greek el. κάλο for good , and el. τύπος for impression . How calotypes work The… … Wikipedia
calotype — /kal euh tuyp /, n. 1. an early negative positive photographic process, patented by William Henry Talbot in 1841, in which a paper negative is produced and then used to make a positive contact print in sunlight. 2. a print made by this process.… … Universalium
calotype — An early photographic process, it was patented in 1840 by William H.F. Talbot (English, 1800 1877), the first process to employ a negative to produce a positive image on paper. Also known as Talbotype … Glossary of Art Terms
calotype — noun Etymology: Greek kalos beautiful + type (as in daguerreotype) Date: 1845 a photographic process by which a large number of prints could be produced from a paper negative; also a positive print so made … New Collegiate Dictionary
CALOTYPE — a process of photography invented by Fox Talbot in 1840, by means of the action of light on nitrate of silver … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Collodion process — An old deteriorated wet plate featuring Theodore Roosevelt The collodion process is an early photographic process. It was introduced in the 1850s and by the end of that decade it had almost entirely replaced the first practical photographic… … Wikipedia
C-41 process — C 41 is a chromogenic color print film developing process. C 41, also known as CN 16 by Fuji, CNK 4 by Konica, and AP 70 by AGFA, is the most popular film process in use, with most photofinishing labs devoting at least one machine to this… … Wikipedia
William Fox Talbot — William Henry Fox Talbot (11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877), was the inventor of the negative / positive photographic process, the precursor to most photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was also a noted photographer who… … Wikipedia
Henry Collen — (1797 1879) was a miniature portrait painter to Queen Victoria and the Duchess of Kent. Later in life he turned to photography and was on the cutting edge in photography in the mid nineteenth century in London. He had great technical expertise… … Wikipedia
History of photography — The first permanent photograph was an image produced in 1826[1] by the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.[2] … Wikipedia
