daguerreotype

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1. daguerreotype - Noun

2. daguerreotype - Verb

Meaning

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.

The process of taking such pictures.

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

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

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A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made. Edward Steichen

Cheap and fast to make, ambrotypes ranged in price from half to a quarter the cost of a daguerreotype – approximately 10 shillings for standard small size. Source: Internet

And I have read that to this day there is not a camera sharper than the Daguerreotype. Source: Internet

Frizot, pg. 39 After the introduction of the Giroux daguerreotype camera, other manufacturers quickly produced improved variations. Source: Internet

United States Lola Montez in 1851, daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes A caricature by David Claypoole Johnston from the period showing Lola Montez leaving Europe for the United States. Source: Internet

While the daguerreotype fascinated Morse, he was concerned about how the new invention would compete with his telegraph. Source: Internet

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