Welcome to Tintype Photos. This is where you can commission us to take images using the Victorian wet plate collodion process.

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Invented By Fredrick Scott Archer in 1851, the wet plate collodion process involves coating a piece of tin in collodion then soaked in sliver nitrate. This is now sensitive to light and is placed in a camera while still wet and exposed to the subject. It is immediately developed and the image is revealed. 

 

Tintype Photos is one of only a handful of companies offering this opportunity to the general public in the UK.