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.
Nominal Dry Film Thickness
Make the exposure. Develop and fix the negative. Expose the printing paper. Develop, fix and dry the print.
Wet photography is using film, chemicals, darkroom and photographic paper. (Since the chemicals are wet.)Dry photography is using digital camera, computer and printer.
when did film photography start? 1884- Flexible Film With the Eastman dry plate co. and flexible film 1. The Eastman Dry plate company established in 1879. American George Eastman invents and patents a coating machine for mass-producing gelatin dry plates. In 1881 Eastman and a family friend form the Eastman dry plate co, which eventually leads to the Eastman-Kodak Company 2.George Eastman then introduces the "Kodak" box Camera for the amateur market. It is loaded with 100 exposures on a film roll for $25. It is simple to operate with a three-step process. Once exposed, the camera and the film are sent back to the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co. for developing. Features a wooden box covered in morocco leather with roll holder and revolving exposure indicator. The marketing slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest" Despite much speculation the word "Kodak" has no significance or meaning. Eastman simple invented a word that begun and ended with his favorite letter, k.
My grandfather had a film company based in NYC..I have three original posters of five films he made with Minta Durfee in Rhode Island...Stuart Oderman interviewed her;that's what gave me the info on Truart Pictures Inc. St. Dyktor Pres. sorry not sure which film it could be: That Quiet Night, The Wives' Union, When you Are Dry, He, She and It, and one other.
Depending on the context, they usually are referring to the same thing. In some cases, people refer to air dry solid film lubricants as dry film lubricants. For more information check link.
Nominal Dry Film Thickness
DRF is a photosensitive resin in a multilayer configuration with a carrier film and cover film. DRF thickness is the carrier film thickness.
Store your film in a cool, dry and dark place. I use a mini beer frigde to store all my film in.
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Dry Mount - 1996 was released on: USA: January 1996 (Sundance Film Festival)
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Dry Gulch - 2013 I was released on: USA: 5 April 2013 (Phoenix Film Festival) USA: 5 April 2013 (International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival)
1 mil (1/1000-inch) dry film thickness
Dry Gulch - 2011 was released on: USA: 24 April 2011 (Homegrown Hoosier Film Festival)
Dry Town - 2006 was released on: USA: 5 February 2006 (The Indie Gathering Film Festival)
Dry Gulch - 2013 II was released on: USA: 26 January 2013 (LDS Film Festival)