. The American annual of photography. mbraces a consideration of the convenience andthe economy of a developer and the easy manipulation of thenegative; the artistic has regard solely to pictorial results, andthese include detail, color, and surface, or brilliancy. I claimthat properly used the new hydrocarbon developers in allthese respects surpass pyrogallol, and that in the case of eiko-nogen, to which I am especially addicted, a new importanceis to be attached, in its remarkable availability for lanternslides. A writer, in a recent issue of The Photographic Times,*has seen fit to allude wi
. The American annual of photography. mbraces a consideration of the convenience andthe economy of a developer and the easy manipulation of thenegative; the artistic has regard solely to pictorial results, andthese include detail, color, and surface, or brilliancy. I claimthat properly used the new hydrocarbon developers in allthese respects surpass pyrogallol, and that in the case of eiko-nogen, to which I am especially addicted, a new importanceis to be attached, in its remarkable availability for lanternslides. A writer, in a recent issue of The Photographic Times,*has seen fit to allude with a slight suggestion of contempt tou wet-plate effects. If the new developers have the propertyof producing wet-plate effects, then they are recommendedby every consideration which veteran photographers what results in tone, in lucidity, in perfection and har-mony of detail have equaled the old wet-plate results? Thedesire of photography has been simply to secure those results, * The Photographic Times, July 31st,
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