Ambrotype Photograhic Images
In 1851 the Englishman Frederick Scott Archer (1813 to 1857) invented the wet collodion process or ambrotype, as it is commonly known. Unlike the daguerreotype process that was expensive and time consuming, ambrotypes could be produced in a matter of seconds with great clarity and at a fraction of the price of daguerreotypes.
Technical Development:
The ambrotype process involved the use of a glass plate as a base medium that [...] Click here to continue reading.