Theory and Practice of the Photographic Art: Including Its Chemistry and Optics : with Instructions in the Practical Manipulation of the Various Processes, Drawn from the Author's Daily PracticeHoulston & Stoneman, 1856 - 212 pages |
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acetic acid aceto-nitrate action albumen alcohol alkaline ammonia blotting-paper bottle bromide calotype camera cause chemical chloride chloride of silver clean coating collodion COLLODION PROCESS colour cotton Daguerreotype developing dilute dissolved distilled water drachm drops ether excited exposed exposure film filter fixed fluid focus gallic acid glacial acetic acid glass grains grammes gutta-percha HARDWICH'S hyposulphite of soda immersed inches iodide of potassium iodide of silver iodine iodized iron lens lenses light liquid metallic minutes mixed mixture negative nitrate bath nitrate of silver nitric acid object obtained operation ounces of water paper process perfectly photographic picture piece plate pledget polishing portion position potash poured prepared produced pyrogallic pyrogallic acid pyroxyline quantity rays refracted removed salt saturated sensitive sheet silver bath silver solution slide soluble solution of nitrate substance sufficient sulphuric acid surface tint transparent tripoli washed waxed paper yellow
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Page 10 - When the shadow of any figure is thrown upon the prepared surface, the part concealed by it remains white, and the other parts speedily become dark.
Page 29 - On the contrary, when light passes out of a denser into a rarer medium, it moves in a direction farther from the perpendicular. This refraction is greater or less, that is, the rays are more or less bent, or turned aside from their course, as the second medium through which they pass is more or less dense than the first. To prove this, in a satisfactory...
Page 10 - An Account of a Method of Copying Paintings upon Glass, and of making Profiles by the Agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver; with Observations by H. Davy.
Page 13 - In conducting this operation, it will' be found that the results are sometimes more and sometimes less satisfactory, in consequence of small and accidental variations in the proportions employed. It happens sometimes that the chloride of silver is disposed to darken of itself, without any exposure to Light : this shows that the attempt to give it sensibility has been carried too far. The object is to approach to this condition as near as possible, without reaching it, so that the substance may be...
Page 10 - In following these processes, I have found that the images of small objects, produced by means of the solar microscope, may be copied without difficulty on prepared paper. This will probably be a useful application of the method ; that it may be employed successfully, however, it is necessary that the paper be placed at but a small distance from the lens.
Page 10 - In the direct beams of the sun, two or three minutes are sufficient to produce the full effect. In the shade, several hours are required, and light transmitted through different coloured glasses acts upon it with different degrees of intensity.
Page 184 - ... enterprising operator, who last year made a tour on the continent, and brought home some of the finest proofs I have ever seen, entirely failed this season in obtaining clear and perfect pictures, from the constant appearance of a mist or cloud over the prepared surface. This appears to be caused by the deposition of moisture upon the plate, arising from the water in which the bromine is dissolved. To obviate this, some have recommended the pan to be kept at a low temperature in a freezing mixture;...
Page 13 - Having therefore prepared a number of sheets of paper with chemical proportions slightly different from one another, let a piece be cut from each, and, having been duly marked or numbered, let them be placed side by side in a very weak diffused light for about a quarter of an hour. Then, if any one of them, as frequently happens, exhibits a marked advantage over its competitors, I select the paper which bears the corresponding number to be placed in the camera obscura.
Page 10 - They have been covered with a thin coating of fine varnish, but this has not destroyed their susceptibility of becoming coloured; and even after repeated washings, sufficient of the active part of the saline matter will still adhere to the white parts of the leather or paper, to cause them to become dark when exposed to the rays of the sun.
Page 199 - ... to the full rays of the sun for a period longer or shorter according to the intensity of the light, and a faint impression on the bitumen is thus obtained. 3. The stone is now placed in a bath of sulphuric ether, which almost instantaneously dissolves the bitumen which has not been acted upon by light, leaving a delicate picture on the stone, composed of bitumen on which the light has fallen. 4. The stone, after being carefully washed, may be at once placed in the hands of the lithographer, who...