Started by Fern Achterberg (@filmgrain_fern) ·
tintypes aren't tin, and they're having a comeback
It's a thin sheet of iron, coated with collodion and silver, exposed while still wet and developed on the spot. Each one is unique and mirror-reversed. They were cheap and didn't shatter, so Civil War soldiers had them made to send home.
6 sources · 40 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “tintype photography how it works”
- Ended at
- “wet plate collodion process start to finish”
The Trail
- “tintype photography how it works” (google.com)
- Tintype (en.wikipedia.org)
- Collodion process (en.wikipedia.org)
- Frederick Scott Archer (en.wikipedia.org)
- Ambrotype (en.wikipedia.org)
- “wet plate collodion process start to finish” (youtube.com)
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