Film, Darkroom & Historic Processes

7 terms

The first commercially successful photographic process, producing a unique, highly detailed image on a polished silvered copper plate.

A light-tight room equipped for processing film and making prints.

An instrument that measures the optical density of a negative, transparency or print.

A measure of how much light a processed negative or print blocks, expressed logarithmically.

The chemical solution that converts exposed silver halide crystals into metallic silver, making the latent image visible.

Holding back light from part of a print during exposure so that area comes out lighter.

The pattern of conductive and insulating squares on a 35 mm cassette that tells the camera the film's speed and length.