From the course: Tintype Photography at New York's Penumbra Foundation

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Reviewing the final tintype image plate

Reviewing the final tintype image plate

- So we've wrapped up a fascinating process here at the Penumbra Foundation with this incredible tintype studio. Tell me, what have we got here? - Here we have the finished tintype, it's not complete yet because we still have to wash it for about 20 minutes and then we have to dry it. Then we actually do scan it, we do use digital technology because somebody wants to have an inkjet print, they want to enlarge it. This is a four by five so it really has an incredible amount of detail, you can blow this up really quite large, about 16 by 20 inches. Get a wonderful inkjet print and so there is some digital technology involved and after we scan it 'cause we wanna scan it before we varnish it. Varnishing is a process that seals in the actual, the layering, it's not an emulsion, but it seals in the tintype to perfect it so it makes it incredibly archival. - Right. - And we use something called gum sandarac and that's the same material that was used in the 19th century and it makes these…

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