calotypen.
/ˈkalətʌɪp/ Photography.
The name given by Fox Talbot to the process of producing photographs, invented by him in 1841, sometimes also called Talbotype. The picture was produced by the action of light upon silver iodide, the latent image being subsequently developed and fixed by hyposulphite of soda. Also attributive, as in calotype process, calotype picture, etc.
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daguerreotype1839
calotype1841
chrysotype1842
chromotype1843
ferrotype1843
tithonotype1843
amphitype1844
energiatype1844
fluorotype1844
Talbotype1844
daguerreotypy1853
ambrotype1854
bitumen process1858
carbon process1858
reversal1859
pyro-photography1869
vitrotype1875
platinotype1877
transferrotype1889
diazotype1890
kallitype1890
Joly process1894
reversal process1908
bromoil1909
bleach-out process1914
carbro1919
Finlay process1931
reversal processing1931
diazo1948
xography1965
push processing1966
1841 W. H. F. Talbot Brit. Patent 8842 3 The paper thus prepared, and which I term ‘calotype paper’, is placed in a camera.
1845 Athenæum 22 Feb. 202 The sharpness of the outline of the Calotype pictures is..inferior to that of the Daguerreotypes.
1881 Times 4 Jan. 3/5 Calotype, or the waxed paper process, with its development by means of silver, superseded the daguerreotype, in which the image was developed by mercury vapour; and, again, calotype..was ousted..by Archer's collodion process, in which the paper picture gave way to..glass and a substratum of collodion.
Derivatives
caloˈtypic adj.
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daguerreotypic1840
daguerreotypical1840
daguerreotype1841
Daguerrean1843
calotypic1854
pyro-photographic1869
autochrome1904
negative–positive1936
1854 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci., Chem. Chem. 88 Paper suitable for taking Calotypic impressions.
ˈcaloˌtypist n.
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daguerreotypist1841
tithonographist1842
calotypist1855
daguerreotyper1864
tin-typer1892
1855 R. Browning Mesmerism ix I imprint her fast On the void at last As the sun does whom he will By the calotypist's skill.
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calotypev.
transitive. To represent or imprint by the calotype process; to photograph.
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daguerreotype1849
calotype1853
reversal process1961
push1966
push process1977
1853 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 754 Presenting the mind to it in a state of repose..a blank sheet of paper, upon which the object may reflect or calotype itself.
a1879 M. Collins in Pen Sk. I. cxciv Who could calotype Amy's laugh?
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