tintype

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  • It looked like a reproduction of an old sepia-toned tintype, and it showed a slender, auburn-haired young woman with large dark eyes that seemed somehow sad to me. —  Asimov'sSF,Feb2004
  • Wet-plate collodion, tintype, cyanotype, platinum … the list goes on and on. —  Jeff Curto's Camera Position
  • One-click adjustments can be made from a choice of nearly 30 preset styles from nostalgic processes like the ambrotype and tintype to classic artistic renderings, trendy high contrast, soft focus or grainy images that emulate the most popular film types and shooting styles. —  Digital Photography Now
  • Drifters and the disenfranchised-rent boys, porn actors, drag queens, the homeless-get ample wall space, while the section devoted to "tribes" gets even more creative: Irving Penn's 1967 photograph of San Francisco Hell's Angels hangs next to Edward Curtis's 1906 image of Hopi women, near a tintype of Butch Cassidy dressed up and posing in a studio with the Wild Bunch, circa 1892. —  Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
  • That includes memory glass charms that turn found objects into charms and an image transfer technique to make a faux tintype. —  Home
 

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/ˈtɪntaɪp/
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