Calotype or talbotype is an early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide. The term calotype comes from the Greek καλός (kalos), `beautiful`, and τύπος (tupos), `impression`. ==The calotype process== Talbot made his first successful camera photographs in 1835 using pa...
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• (n.) A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.
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The first negative-positive photography technique, pioneered in 1841 by British scientist William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877). The process allowed an infinite number of prints on paper to be made from a single paper negative. The calotype eventually superseded the daguerrotype.
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early photographic technique invented by William Henry Fox Talbot of Great Britain in the 1830s. In this technique, a sheet of paper coated with ... [4 related articles]
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The world's first negative-positive technique of photography, pioneered by British scientist William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77) in 1841. The process allowed an infinite number of prints on paper to be made from a single paper negative. The calotype eventually superseded the DAGUERREOTYPE.
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Cal'o·type noun [ Greek
kalo`s beautiful +
ty`pos type.]
(Photog.) A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called
Talbotype , from the inventor, Mr. Fox.
Talbot .
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Calotype is the process of producing photographs by the action of light upon paper impregnated with silver iodide or silver nitrate, which are then developed with gallic acid producing a negative image. The process was invented by Dr William Talbot in 1833 and improved upon by both himself and later Scott Archer in 1851.
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calotype 1. A 19th-century photographic process producing a negative on a plate wet with silver iodide.2. An early photograph produced by the calotype process.
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Paper-based photograph using a wax paper negative, the first example of the negative/positive process invented by the English photographer Fox Talbot around 1834
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