What was the main drawback of the daguerreotype?
Too realistic
Expensive
Too large
Colorless
Answer
Expensive: The daguerreotype, the first commercially successful photographic process, had a significant drawback in its high cost. The process required a silver-plated copper sheet as the image receptor, which was expensive to produce. Additionally, the exposure time was long, requiring subjects to remain still for several minutes, further increasing the cost of the process. This expense limited the widespread adoption of daguerreotypes, particularly among the general public.
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