Photography in the Studio and in the Field. Edward M. Estabrooke

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       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

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      EAN 4057664577023

Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION.

       GLASS.

       COLLODION.

       THE COLLODION PROCESS FOR NEGATIVES.

       FORMULA FOR MAKING COLLODION COTTON.

       THE NEGATIVE BATH.

       THE NEGATIVE DEVELOPER.

       FIXING SOLUTION

       INTENSIFYING THE NEGATIVE.

       THE BROMO ARGENTIC DRY PLATE PROCESS.

       GELATINE EMULSION.

       DESCRIPTION OF APPARATUS USED IN MAKING AND WASHING EMULSIONS.

       DEVELOPING ROOM FOR DRY PLATES.

       DEVELOPMENT OF DRY PLATES.

       DRY PLATE DEVELOPER, A.

       FIXING SOLUTION.

       CLEARING SOLUTION.

       PRACTICALITIES.

       RETOUCHING, OR STIPPLING THE NEGATIVE.

       SILVER PRINTING.

       THE PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO.

       CAMERA LENSES.

       CAMERA BOXES.

       CAMERA BOXES

       CAMERA STANDS.

       THE PNEUMATIC SHUTTER FOR THE CAMERA.

       HEAD-RESTS.

       POSING CHAIRS.

       PART SECOND.

       FIELD PHOTOGRAPHY.

       AMATEUR EQUIPMENTS FOR FIELD WORK.

       THE VIEW LENS. (See article on lenses in Part First.)

       THE TRIPOD OR CAMERA STAND.

       THE INSTANTANEOUS SHUTTER.

       THE CARRYING BOX.

       THE DEVELOPING OUTFIT FOR AMATEURS.

       EASTMAN'S IMPROVED NEGATIVE PAPER.

       HOW TO USE THE EASTMAN-WALKER ROLL-HOLDER.

       THE ROCHE FILM.

       ENLARGING AND DUPLICATING SMALL NEGATIVES.

       PRINTING PROCESSES.

       THE ENLARGING CAMERA

       PRINTING WITHOUT SALTS OF SILVER, FROM THE "SILVER SUNBEAM."

       TRANSPARENCIES ON GLASS AND OPAL.

       PHOTO MICROGRAPHY.

INTRODUCTION.

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      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