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🖼️ An old photograph 🖼️ To photograph on metal
to tintype

to tintype

9.9
To make a photo directly on a thin metal plate using an old wet chemical method
  • verb
  • /ˈtɪnˌtaɪp/
  • Archaic
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  • She learned how to tintype after taking a workshop on nineteenth-century photography techniques.

Examples

  • The artist will tintype your portrait at the vintage photography booth.

  • Many reenactors enjoy being tintyped in period costumes at historical festivals.

  • I want to tintype my family portrait.

  • She tintyped a beautiful landscape last summer.

  • The photographer will tintype portraits using a traditional wet-plate process at the fair.

  • During the festival, visitors can get their pictures tintyped to experience history.

  • He decided to tintype his favorite landscape, capturing the beauty of nature in a unique way.

How Old-Fashioned

to daguerreotype
  • Archaic
9.9
to tintype
  • Archaic
9.9
to snap
  • Informal
47 2.8

Surface Forms

tintype infinitive
tintyped past
tintyped past participle
tintyping present participle
tintypes third person singular

Etymology

Tintype as a verb comes from the name of the metal photo and means 'to make a photograph' on a thin metal plate, so to tintype someone is to create that old-style metal picture of them.