Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A process formerly used for making photographic prints, using a finely precipitated platinum salt and an iron salt in the sensitizing solution to produce prints in platinum black.
- noun A print produced by platinotype.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A process of photographic printing in which the paper is coated with a solution of platinum chlorid and ferric oxalate.
- noun A print made by any platinotype process.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Photog.) A permanent photographic picture or print in platinum black.
- noun The process by which such pictures are produced.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable A method of making
photographic prints usingplatinum salts - noun countable A print made by this method
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Examples
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_Platino-Bromide_ paper gives delicate platinotype tones, and where negative, paper and manipulation are in harmony, the prints obtained on this paper will be indistinguishable from good platinotypes in quality and attractiveness.
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The latter, except under exceptional circumstances, are far better employed in the legitimate form of platinotype or other platinum paper; bromide prints toned with platinum will probably cost more, and will never have the absolute permanence peculiar to the platinum print.
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Any one taking up platinotype and getting only weak prints would do well to look to his negatives instead of blaming the paper, as the high lights should be fairly dense, and the deep shadows nearly clear glass.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 Various
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A thin negative is better printed by the cold bath process, but negatives should be good and brilliant for platinotype printing.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 Various
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The platinotype has been still improved by Captain Pizzighelli, who devised the following methods of operating by which the impressions are obtained by the continuous action of light, that is, without development, thus rendering the platinotype just as simple as the ordinary printing-out silver process.
Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois
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It offers a range of tone from deepest black to the most delicate of platinotype grays, which may be modified to give a fair variety of color effects where this is desirable.
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The preparation of wood, canvas, etc., for the platinotype printing need not to be described; it suggests itself.
Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois
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And it looks so nice as a frame for platinotype photographs.
The Wings of the Morning Louis Tracy 1895
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The aniline process was published in 1865, by Mr. Willis, the inventor of the platinotype. (
Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois
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State whether silver print, platinotype, carbon (give color
A Library Primer John Cotton Dana 1892
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