Wet collodion is a much improved calotype developed by Frederick Scott Archer. A sensitized glass plate was dipped into a bath of silver nitrate and exposed while still wet. The improved speed made much shorter exposures possible.
The Getty Museum: The Wet Collodion Process Julia Margaret Cameron Step by Step Wet Plate Photography Making a Photograph During the Brady Era Mathew Brady Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) - Photographer Nadar William Henry Jackson ...
A term also known as "wet collodion" was invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851 52.
-Collodion process - also known as "wet collodion" was invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851-52.
See also: Collodion, Photograph, Plate, Image, Collodion process
 
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