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Tintype vs Daguerreotype - What's the difference?

tintype | daguerreotype |

As a noun tintype

is an early, remarkably durable form of photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a tin plate, then varnished.

As a verb daguerreotype is

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tintype

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An early, remarkably durable form of photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a tin plate, then varnished.
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    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}
  • * 2006 , (Thomas Pynchon), Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 993:
    • They'll show you tintypes of the kids more often than not, hell, they love em chavalitos .

    See also

    * not on your tintype

    daguerreotype

    English

    (wikipedia daguerreotype)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors.

    • Related terms

    * daguerreotyper * daguerreotypy

    Verb

    (daguerreotyp)
  • (intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a (of).