Despite an enthusiastic public acceptance, the success of the daguerreotype was limited by:

A. a strict international patent.
B. the inability to make multiple images from one negative.
C. painters who believed photography was not art.
D. the invention of the motion picture.
E. the cost of silver.


B
The daguerreotype's image produced a positive image, which is unique and cannot be reproduced since the plate is the photograph.

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