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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;User 67, post: 9496, member: 67&quot;]No one knows when the first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintype" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintype" rel="nofollow">tintype</a> was made, it was patented in 1856. They are basically the same as an Ambrotype (a collodion positive) on glass. Someone found that a slightly under exposed glass negative, when laid on a black background would show as a positive image, creating the ambrotype. This process explains the overall darkness of the images and the lack of contrast. (many unscrupulous dealers run the scans of tintypes through an image processer like phtotoshop to bump up the contrast and lighten the image)</p><p><br /></p><p>To make a tintype they coated a thin sheet of iron with black enamel to act like the dark paper placed behind the Ambrotypes. These were inexpensive to make, and production required less steps and materials, so tintype photography was a cheap and easy way to get into the market. They were also some of the first photographs that most families of modest means could afford. They were very popular during the civil war, and itinerant photographers could pack up a whole studio on a cart and travel to rural communities, shoot and develop photos in a single day, and move on, making tintypes and traveling photographers symbolic with the wild west.</p><p><br /></p><p>They continued to be made at amusement parks and boardwalks well into the 1920s, as a kind of instant photography, take your pic in the morning and come back for it in a few hours or minutes. The quality of these images wasn&#039;t always so good. Later carnival tintypes were made on celluloid sheets. The photo booth seems to have finally displaced them all together.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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