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The calotype is the early paper negative process patented in 1841 that made multiple positive prints from one camera exposure possible.
A camera obscura is a darkened chamber in which light passing through a small opening projects an inverted image, the optical ancestor of every camera.
A daguerreotype is the first commercial photographic process, producing a unique, highly detailed image on a polished silver-coated copper plate.
A darkroom is a light-controlled room where photographers develop film and make prints from negatives using chemical processes and safelights.
Film photography records images on light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, developed chemically into negatives or slides, the dominant medium before digital.
A photographic negative is a developed film or plate image with reversed tones, used as the master from which any number of positive prints are made.
Wet plate collodion is the 1851 photographic process in which a glass plate is coated, sensitized, exposed and developed while the collodion is still wet.
The Zone System is a method from the history of photography that links exposure and development to planned print tones on an eleven-step gray scale.