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What is dry film?

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Dry film is what they sell now, and it's a really great invention--it more than anything opened Photography to the masses.

The other kind of film--well, plates back then--was wet film. How it worked was wild indeed: When you went to photograph something, you brought your darkroom with you. When you found the thing you wanted to photograph, you went into your darkroom, coated a glass plate with "collodion"-based emulsion, put the plate in your camera, took the photo and developed it all before the emulsion had a chance to dry. If the emulsion dried before you developed the picture, it wouldn't come out right. And because collodion is flammable--it's dissolved in a mixture of alcohol and ether--photography was hazardous.

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