autochrome plate
autochrome plate
[′ȯd·ō‚krōm ‚plāt] (graphic arts)
A photographic plate once used for direct color photography on coated glass; the glass must be viewed as a transparency, with the image formed in the film of dyed starch grains coating the glass.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Though the first widely used method of colour photography was the
Autochrome plate, the process inventors and brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiare commercially introduced was in 1907.
When magnified, the image created on the surface of a typical
autochrome plate appears fragmented, even pixelated.
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