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The ambrotype (from ἀμβροτός — `immortal”, and τύπος — `impression”) or amphitype, also known as a collodion positive in the UK, is a positive photograph on glass made by a variant of the wet plate collodion process. Like a print on paper, it is viewed by reflected light. Like the daguerreotype, which it replaced, and lik...
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• (n.) A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.
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(from the article `tintype`) ...by applying a collodion-nitrocellulose solution to a thin, black-enameled metal plate immediately before exposure. The tintype, introduced in the ... The new wet collodion process was also used to produce positive images on glass called ambrotypes, which were simply underexposed or bleached ... Archer ...
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Am'bro·type (-tīp)
noun [ Greek
'a`mbrotos immortal +
-type .]
(Photog.) A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.
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ambrotype (s), ambrotypes (pl) 1. An early type of photograph made by imaging a negative on glass backed by a dark surface. 2. A picture taken on a place of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass. 3. Etymology: from Gr...
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an early type of photograph, made by placing a glass negative against a dark background.
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