different between tintype vs daguerreotype

English

Etymology

tin +? type

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?nta?p/

Noun

tintype (plural tintypes)

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

Derived terms

• not on your tintype

Verb

tintype (third-person singular simple present tintypes, present participle tintyping, simple past and past participle tintyped)

1. (transitive) To produce a tintype image of.

English

Etymology

From French daguerréotype. Named after French artist Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?????.??.ta?p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?????.o?.ta?p/, /d?????.?.ta?p/

Noun

daguerreotype (plural daguerreotypes)

1. 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

Translations

Verb

daguerreotype (third-person singular simple present daguerreotypes, present participle daguerreotyping, simple past and past participle daguerreotyped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).

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