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059 13 April 2004

By 1870 the negative made using the Wet Collodion Process had been superceded by Maddox's Dry Plate. The dry plate offered ubiquity, anyone could now buy a camera, some "sensitised plates" and make pictures.

It was no accident that the local pharmacist would process the amateurs "film", he had the requisite chemical craft skills. The dry plate was the first popular photographic consumable - film, and marked a chain of selling to enthusiasts. It is the end of this era that we are witnessing.

liverpool 2004

 

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