Film, Darkroom & Historic Processes

6 terms

Photographic paper whose emulsion is coated directly onto a paper base with no plastic layer.

A flexible transparent base coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, which records an image chemically rather than electronically.

The transparent support that carries the emulsion, historically nitrate or acetate and now usually polyester.

The visible texture produced by clumps of developed silver, which becomes more apparent with faster films and greater enlargement.

A film's sensitivity to light, rated on the ISO scale and formerly as ASA or DIN.

A solution that dissolves the undeveloped silver halide, making the image permanent and no longer light-sensitive.