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Re: The Coppice
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Originally Posted by Pudwoppa
I thought commercially available cameras were mid 1840's onwards, and weren't widely available for a few years - I must have my dates muddled. I'm very happy to be wrong on that; hopefully it means there are more early photos hovering around that I haven't seen yet.
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The inventor of the first negative from which multiple postive prints were made was Henry Fox Talbot, an English botanist and mathematician and a contemporary of Daguerre.
Talbot sensitized paper to light with a silver salt solution. He then exposed the paper to light. The background became black, and the subject was rendered in gradations of grey. This was a negative image, and from the paper negative, Talbot made contact prints, reversing the light and shadows to create a detailed picture. In 1841, he perfected this paper-negative process and called it a calotype, Greek for beautiful picture.
Would take a while for Fox Talbots invention to reach Accrington, & be used for taking views, more profit in studio portraites.
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