Think of tintype as a luxury handmade ancestor to the polaroid.

Tintype is a 19th-century photographic process invented in 1851, which remained the predominant image-making technology until the end of the nineteenth century.

Tintype involves coating a sheet of tin with a sticky substance called collodion, which is then submerged in a bath of silver nitrate. Essentially, creating a film that is expose to light, developed and stoped. In the fixing process, the tin plate can be exposed to daylight. Clients experience the magic of the blue negative turn into a black and white positive. Once washed and dried, the plate is coated with a layer of shellac and is ready to be taken home. The resulting image is a one-of-a-kind modern heirloom.