The Invention of Photography
In Our Time: Science
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What Is the Difference Between Talbot and Dager?
Talbot's process involved making a negative and then printing positives from that negative using the same processes as one had used to expose the photograph in the first place. Unlike a daguerreotype, which is a unique, one off positive, what talbot was offering was the dream of an definite number of copies. And it was his that took took precedent and gradually gained strength as time went one. But not at the start. There was not the excitement there was in france. Ther was not the rushing. He he patented his process in england, which, in a way, held it back. It would overtake to agrotypeing, popular well, just as a way
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