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Record 1 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
  • Reprography
  • Types of Paper
DEF

a photographic paper sensitized by a process analogous to kallitype and used especially for plan copying.

OBS

kallitype: a contact printing-out photographic process that uses paper sensitized with a ferric salt and silver nitrate and a developer containing borax and Rochelle salt.

DEF

for "sepia" : Translucent papers, plasticized or unplasticized, that have been treated with diazonium salts which when processed turn brown in colour. Used as an inexpensive intermediate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie
  • Reprographie
  • Sortes de papier
OBS

La diazocopie se cantonne (...) dans les limites du tirage de plans (...) Les papiers actuellement disponibles pour la diazocopie permettent d'obtenir différentes couleurs: bleu, noir, havane, marron, sanguine, ocre, sépia. (...) Ils peuvent être transparents, translucides, opaques (...)

Spanish

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