dry plate

dry plate
1. a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.
2. Metall. tin plate having patches of dull finish.
[1855-60]

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      in photography, glass plate coated with a gelatin emulsion of silver bromide. It can be stored until exposure, and after exposure it can be brought back to a darkroom for development at leisure. These qualities were great advantages over the wet collodion process, in which the plate had to be prepared just before exposure and developed immediately after. The dry plate, which could be factory produced, was introduced in 1871 by R.L. Maddox. It was superseded by celluloid film early in the 20th century.

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