Editing Calotype (section)

{{short description|Early photographic process}}
{{For|"hot type"|hot metal typesetting}}
[[File:Henry Fox Talbot - The Building of Nelson^s Column - B2018.20.3 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg|thumb|The Building of [[Nelson's Column]], by [[Henry Fox Talbot|William Henry Fox Talbot]], {{circa}} 1843 calotype print]]
'''Calotype''' or '''talbotype''' is an early [[photographic process]] introduced in 1841 by [[William Fox Talbot|William Henry Fox Talbot]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/dag/timeline.html |title=Daguerreotypes – Time Line of the Daguerreian Era – Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress) |publisher=Loc.gov |access-date=2013-08-18}}</ref> using [[paper]]<ref name=":0">{{cite book|url=https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/225328.pdf|title=The Finger print Sourcebook|last1=Hutchins|first1=Laura A.|last2=May|first2=Robert E.|publisher=NIJ and International Association for Identification|year=2011|chapter=The Preservation of Finger Ridges}}</ref> coated with [[silver iodide]]. [[Paper texture effects in calotype photography]] limit the ability of this early process to record low contrast details and textures.

The term ''calotype'' comes from the [[Ancient Greek language|Ancient Greek]] {{wikt-lang|grc|καλός}} ({{Transliteration|grc|kalos}}), "beautiful", and {{wikt-lang|grc|τύπος}} ({{Transliteration|grc|typos}}), "impression".