The American annual of photography . Fig. Tele-Photo Lens and the Hand Camera, by A. R. F. Ever shed. PROGRESS IN SCREEN PLATEPHOTOGRAPHY IN igio By HUGH C. HERE have been but few improvements, or novel-ties, to chronicle in this branch of photographysince last year. Autochrome plates have againbeen very uniform and reliable, though to myastonishment I had some cases of frilling inthe summer. The emulsion, too, has proved slightly moresensitive, as plates changed under conditions which have pre-viously proved entirely safe, have this year shown a slightveil of fog. Mes
The American annual of photography . Fig. Tele-Photo Lens and the Hand Camera, by A. R. F. Ever shed. PROGRESS IN SCREEN PLATEPHOTOGRAPHY IN igio By HUGH C. HERE have been but few improvements, or novel-ties, to chronicle in this branch of photographysince last year. Autochrome plates have againbeen very uniform and reliable, though to myastonishment I had some cases of frilling inthe summer. The emulsion, too, has proved slightly moresensitive, as plates changed under conditions which have pre-viously proved entirely safe, have this year shown a slightveil of fog. Messrs. Lumiere have, however, given us a means of repro-ducing our pictures on other plates in the simple form of abox, holding the plate to be copied and the fresh plate togetherat one end, and having at the other an attachment for a doublespiral of magnesium ribbon, twisted and burning at a regularrate in a spring, the light reaching the plates through a specialcompensating screen of a different tint and depth to that usedfor taking the original. This apparatus I have found to workvery well, the slight blurring of the outlines proving an im-provement in a good many cases of
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