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calotype
[ kal-uh-tahyp ]
noun
- an early negative-positive photographic process, patented by William Henry Talbot in 1841, in which a paper negative is produced and then used to make a positive contact print in sunlight.
- a print made by this process.
calotype
/ ˈkæləʊˌtaɪp /
noun
- an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
- a photograph made by this process
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of calotype1
C19: from Greek kalos beautiful + -type
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Example Sentences
Why not adopt and abide by the simplicity of the calotype process as given in a late Number?
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What price would some early edition of his works bear, 184 with his likeness in calotype fronting the title?
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Curiously enough, though for very obvious reasons, the Daguerreotype seems to favour one method, the Calotype the other.
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Three hours in the calotype and waxed-paper process, and half-an-hour sufficed for the collodion process!!
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The notion of a "national reward" for the Calotype scarcely requires a remark.
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