Edward M. Estabrooke
Photography in the Studio and in the Field
A Practical Manual Designed as a Companion Alike to the Professional and the Amateur Photographer
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664577023
Table of Contents
THE COLLODION PROCESS FOR NEGATIVES.
FORMULA FOR MAKING COLLODION COTTON.
THE BROMO ARGENTIC DRY PLATE PROCESS.
DESCRIPTION OF APPARATUS USED IN MAKING AND WASHING EMULSIONS.
DEVELOPING ROOM FOR DRY PLATES.
RETOUCHING, OR STIPPLING THE NEGATIVE.
THE PNEUMATIC SHUTTER FOR THE CAMERA.
AMATEUR EQUIPMENTS FOR FIELD WORK.
THE VIEW LENS. (See article on lenses in Part First.)
THE DEVELOPING OUTFIT FOR AMATEURS.
EASTMAN'S IMPROVED NEGATIVE PAPER.
HOW TO USE THE EASTMAN-WALKER ROLL-HOLDER.
ENLARGING AND DUPLICATING SMALL NEGATIVES.
PRINTING WITHOUT SALTS OF SILVER, FROM THE "SILVER SUNBEAM."
TRANSPARENCIES ON GLASS AND OPAL.
INTRODUCTION.
The most important improvement in photographic processes that has been introduced since Maynard first made collodion, and Archer discovered its adaptability to the production of photographic negatives, is the gelatine bromide dry plate.
Wet plate photography had reached its utmost point of adaptability to the demands of the times.
A few men of marked ability, and the skill of long study and practice, had reached the point of highest excellence in working with collodion, and the great multitude were pressing on toward that designated height to which it was given to but few to attain.
It had been demonstrated that wonderfully beautiful effects could be produced