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(Photog.) A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after exposure it is developed and fixed.

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No references found			He also designed the big camera to fit the paper he had been using for enlarged images from other cameras and to accommodate his favorite image-making technology: wet-plate collodion. WHEN MAMMOTH CAMERAS ROAMED THE EARTH by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM) Chiara's finished works betray his lo-fi production and strategies of chance--which bring to mind nineteenth-century landscape photographers such as Carleton Watkins hauling bulky wet-plate gear up a mountain--and attest to the artist's command of materials. John Chiara: Eleanor harwood gallery by Helfand, Glen / Artforum International The exhibit starts with Watkins, who made four trips to the gorge in the mid to late 19th century, carrying a large-format camera and a set of collodion wet-plate glass negatives that were in use at the time. Photographs at Portland Art Museum put history of gorge in focus by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)			wet bar wet blanket wet cell Wet cupping wet deposition Wet dock wet dream wet fish wet fly Wet goods wet lease wet look wet lung Wet meter wet monsoon wet nurse wet pack Wet plate wet rot wet steam wet suit wet-and-dry-bulb thermometer wet-bulb thermometer wet-look wet-nurse wet-plate Wet-shod wet-weather tyre weta wetback Wetbird wether wetland wetly wetness wetnurse wetsuit wetter Wetterhorn Wetterhorn Peak wettie wetting wetting agent wettish WEU Wevil Wex Wexford Wey Weyden Weygand			wet-belly disease wet-bulb depression Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature Index Wet-Bulb Globe Thermometer Wet-bulb temperature wet-bulb thermometer wet-bulb thermometer wet-cell caplight Wet-Dry Recycling Centre wet-drying Wet-Etching Rate wet-lease wet-leased wet-leases wet-leasing wet-look wet-mix shotcrete Wet-mount Wet-Net Training wet-nurse wet-nurse wet-nursed wet-nursed wet-nurses wet-nurses wet-nursing wet-nursing wet-on-wet painting wet-pipe sprinkler system wet-plate Wet-plate photography Wet-plate process wet-reed relay wet-sheet pack wet-sheet treatment Wet-shod wet-strength paper wet-strong paper wet-test meter wet-use adhesive wet-weather tyre wet-wet bandage wet-wet bandage wet-wet bandage Wet/Dry Index Wet/dry vacuum Wet/dry vacuum Wet:Dry Muscle Weights WETA WETA WETAC WETAP Wetar Wetar Island wetas Wetaskiwin and District Association for Community Service Wetaskiwin Composite High School

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