{"id":28138,"date":"2024-03-02T01:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T05:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=28138"},"modified":"2024-02-29T23:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T03:01:08","slug":"the-tin-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-tin-men\/","title":{"rendered":"the tin men"},"content":{"rendered":"
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a wet plate positive (tintype) – bought in 1978<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. The advent of the wet plate process provided a means to continue on with the cased images like the daguerreotype, create a negative for paper prints, or expose a black Japanned piece of ‘iron’ to be cased or mailed or simply framed and kept.<\/p>\n

The tintype<\/a> was like the Ambrotype, but instead of a glass plate, a sensitized piece of flat iron sheet was exposed (underexposed for a better positive), processed and bleached to make a positive. The black Japanned surface substituted for the Ambrotype’s black backing. When cased, the tintype was \u00a0easily mistaken for an Ambrotype.<\/p>\n

The fine example at left shows the dark sombre look of a correctly exposed and processed tintype. While tintypes eventually replaced Ambrotypes, and dry plates eventually replaced wet, they remained popular well into the 20th century serving as a novel means for creating reasonably fast positives at family friendly beaches and fairs.<\/p>\n

You may have read Graham Greene’s thriller “The Third Man<\/a>“, a post WW2 spy novella, or seen the dark, noir film of the same name based on Greene’s story (originally written as a guide for the movie) . This post title is a riff on the book and movie. An accompanying musical score is the haunting “Theme from the Third Man<\/a>“. Shades of Harry Lime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. The advent of the wet plate process provided a means to continue on with the cased images like the daguerreotype, create a negative for paper prints, or expose a black Japanned piece of ‘iron’ to be cased or mailed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[398,14,316,4564],"class_list":["post-28138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-camera","tag-film","tag-prints","tag-wet-pate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28142,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28138\/revisions\/28142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}