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Title: Anthony's photographic bulletin for ..
Year: 1870 (1870s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Ill \ I INC. Willi A MASCOT. Half Tone i\ s> hool ol Process E ngraving. Elk, and the Last Shell, was taken in bright sunlight, as was also•• A Northern Angelo. Much better results might have been seen inhad the sun kindly absented himself. As real snow daysdom, however, the best we knew how was done under the cir umstan ill plates were secured OH Blair film, POCO camera, and I think some really excellent work can be done on films. Certainly they are handy, reliable and rapid. •: with ore toni the gold mines wore also taken onfilm posure being i 15 oi a second. It may probably interest you- the plates I found most satisfactory in this work. I had ortho plates, process plates, rapid plates and dry collodion.
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iiy The process plate furnished the finest results every time. Therewas very little to decide between it and collodion. The developer was nietol hydroquinone, although others, no doubt,are equally as good ; only I like this eombination, after two years con-tinuous usage in process, color work and in landscape. The features which I consider of particular importance are thedevelopment of the plates, the filling of the holders, etc., which Icarry out in as nearly absolute darkness as possible. ()nly those engaged in the reproduction of colors for process workare, I think, aware of the extreme sensitiveness of any gelatino-bro-mide plate to any light. Let any color of light act upon such a plate fora given period, and the developer will generally manage to show theresult. Again, I have no doubt but that there are many who do not counttheir tonalities from clear glass up. As an old wet-plate hand, I do,and never find dry plates with too clear shadows. Concluding, I suppose it is very much

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