Dry plates
A photographic term used to describe gelatin coated plates in the days when wet collodion process was still popular.
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In 1871, Richard Maddox discovered gelatin could be used instead of glass for photographic plates. This step not only allowed for faster development but also paved the way for mass-produced film.
Dry plates are by far the most important product of the 1870s, in fact, probably the most important product of the entire second millennium (years 1000 - 1999) along with the concept of fixing an image.
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19th century studio camera
Collodion dry plates had been available since 1855, thanks to the work of Désiré van Monckhoven, ...
and made and marketed motion picture film, dry plates and photographic paper. During its first three years, it was difficult for the company to create much brand recognition and, therefore, a sufficient share of the market.
-Ansel Adams, The Camera "These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago...
In 1879 George Eastman, amateur photographer and employee of a bank in Rochester, had invented an emulsion-coating machine for mass production of dry plates and got a patent on it in England.
Another American company sold "the Glen Pinhole Camera", which included six dry plates, chemicals, trays, a print frame and ruby paper for a safelight. The very first commercial pinhole camera was designed by Dehors and Deslandres in France in 1887.
 See also: Plates, Photograph, Dry plate, Plate, Film
  
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