Daguerreotype

What do we mean by daguerreotype?

An early photographic process with the image made on a light-sensitive silver-coated metallic plate. noun

A photograph made by this process. noun

To make a daguerreotype of. transitive verb

To produce by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.

One of the earliest processes of photography, the invention of L. J. M. Daguerre of Paris, first published in 1839, by which the lights and shadows of a landscape or a figure are fixed on a prepared metallic plate by the action of actinic light-rays. noun

A picture produced by the above process. noun

Relating to or produced by daguerreo-type.

To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture. transitive verb

To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly. transitive verb

An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury. noun

The process of taking such pictures. 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. noun

To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of). verb

A photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor 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.

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