[f. SOLARIZE v. + -ATION.]
1. Photogr. The injurious effect produced by overexposing a negative to the action of light, resulting in the reversal of the image; a similar effect produced by over-printing sensitized paper, etc.
1853. R. Hunt, Man. Photogr., 149. I have been enabled to discover at what degree of intensity of light the effect called Solarization is produced.
1854. Hadow, in Jrnl. Photogr. Soc., I. 191. My pictures were constantly liable to solarization (or darkening of those parts that ought to be whitish).
1889. Anthony’s Photogr. Bulletin, II. 267. Their entire freedom from halation or solarization.
2. (See quot.)
1882. Nature, 13 July, 246. On the instant after the exposure of the eye to strong light,…—solarisation I will call it.
