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direct positive
n. Photographs exposed in the camera that, when developed, have the same polarity as the original subject.Notes
Commonly used to describe 19th-century processes that were unique originals made without a negative, including daguerreotypes, tintypes, and ambrotypes. Images made on opaque supports were laterally reversed, unless a reversing lens was used. Sometimes used synonymously with direct image film.-
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