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1867. Collodion wet plate process. GERONA.-Puente de Isabel II.Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (Spain). The collodion process is an early photographic process. The collodion process, mostly synonymous with the "collodion wet plate process", requires the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed, and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes, necessitating a ...
Frederick Scott Archer (1813 – 1 May 1857) was an English photographer and sculptor who is best known for having invented the photographic collodion process [1] which preceded the modern gelatin emulsion. He was born in either Bishop's Stortford or Hertford, within the county of Hertfordshire, England (United Kingdom of Great Britain and ...
Wet-collodion process, early photographic technique invented by Englishman Frederick Scott Archer in 1851. The process involved adding a soluble iodide to a solution of collodion (cellulose nitrate) and coating a glass plate with the mixture. In the darkroom the plate was immersed in a solution of
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May 2, 1857, London (aged 44) Frederick Scott Archer (born 1813, Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, Eng.—died May 2, 1857, London) was an English inventor of the first practical photographic process by which more than one copy of a picture could be made. Archer, a butcher’s son, began his professional career as an apprentice silversmith ...
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- Frederick Scott Archer Discovers The Wet-Collodion Process
- Archer Designs The Folding Collodion Camera
- Frederick Scott Archer Dies, Practically Penniless
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Archer used Talbot’s calotype process which produced paper negatives but, dissatisfied with the results, he soon began his own experiments to develop a more sensitive and finely detailed process. For his experiments Archer used collodion—a newly-discovered substance which was used as a medical dressing. A sticky solution of gun cotton in ether, col...
Archer was interested in camera design as well as photographic chemistry. In April 1853, he demonstrated a camera made to his own design at a meeting of the Photographic Society. Archer’s camera, ‘where the whole process of a negative picture is completed within the box itself’, was also a portable darkroom. At the back of the camera were two black...
Others were to benefit from Archer’s work and, indeed, a lucky few were to make their fortunes. Archer himself, however, was not so fortunate. His easy-going, generous nature, combined with poor health, prevented him from aggressively pursuing the financial rewards that were rightly his. In May 1857 Archer died, practically penniless, and was burie...
Catchers of the Light, Dr Stefan Hughes: A new short biography of ArcherThe Collodion process. Introduced in 1851, by Frederick Scott Archer, the wet collodion process was a fairly simple, if somewhat cumbersome photographic process. A 2% solution of collodion, bearing a very small percentage of potassium iodide, was poured over a plate of glass, leaving a thin, clear film containing the halide.
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The collodion process is a photographic technique invented in the 1850s that involves coating a glass plate with a thin layer of collodion, a sticky substance made from nitrocellulose dissolved in ether and alcohol, to create a negative image. This method allowed for sharp, detailed photographs to be produced quickly and became widely used during the 19th century, influencing the development ...
