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COLLODION PROCESS [1 record]

Record 1 2010-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
  • Graphic Arts and Printing
DEF

... a process involving a chemical substance called collodion that enabled emulsions to be coated onto glass plates.

CONT

The collodion process was adapted to other materials, including metal plates that produced photographs called tintypes.

OBS

This became known as the "wet plate" process because collodion-coated glass plates were dipped in a light-sensitive silver nitrate solution and exposed by the camera while wet.

OBS

The "collodion wet-plate process" is sometimes described as a synonym of the "collodion process" although it is strictly different.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie
  • Imprimerie et arts graphiques
DEF

Procédé utilisant une préparation de nitrate de cellulose dissout dans l'éther et l'alcool comme liant des sels d'argent sensibles.

OBS

Bien que l'on soit porté à considérer le «procédé au collodion humide» comme synonyme du «procédé au collodion», il en est différent au sens strict.

Spanish

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