The Photographic Times Volume 35 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... take six ounces of warm water of about 900; mix one ounce of No. 1 and one ounce of No. 2, and add the six ounces of warm water; put two or three prints in this mixture, all face down, turning them face up, starting with the bottom one, and keep on until you find that they have attained a beautiful intense black. If you wish to make brilliant red prints, you can only use weak prints, as the toning solution tends to intensify them. You make these solutions as follows, labelling them 1, 2 and 3: 1. One ounce of ferricyanide of potassium in 16 ounces of water. 2. One ounce of nitrate of uranium in 16 ounces of water. 3. One ounce of bromide of ammonium in 16 ounces of water. You then take one ounce of each of these solutions, together with a quarter of an ounce of diluted nitric acid--add to this about ten ounces of warm water--and place your print in this. In a short time it is changed in shade from a bright straw color to a deep burnt sienna. I have a large number of formula; for treating prints, but I have long ago set them aside, labelling them "photographic gymnastics." i903 NOVELTY AND FASHION.?13 NOVELTY AND FASHION. BY T. PERKINS. WE know on the authority of Thucydides, who wrote during the fifth century before the Christian era, that the Athenians were lovers of novelty, and apparently their character did not change during the time which passed between the death of the Greek historian and the visit of St. Paul to Athens, for we read in the Acts of the Apostles that the Athenians spent their time in nothing else but telling or hearing some new thing. It seems as though the mantle of the Athenians of old had fallen upon the shoulders of modern photographers, for of late years they have been continually striving to produce something new and st...