. The book of photography; practical, theoretical and applied. ck or hole. The ruby lamp, if thereis no ruby window, should be adjustedto give just sufficient light to enable theworker to see without straining the eyes. Plates. Any make of plate of the rapidity knownas Ordinary, are the best to start with. It 14 THE BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHY. is supposed that the slide is one of thebook-form kind, as supplied with moststand cameras. It is unfastened bymoving aside the clips, and laid flaton the bench or table, and the partitionof metal or black cardboard found inside,if removable, is taken out. The
. The book of photography; practical, theoretical and applied. ck or hole. The ruby lamp, if thereis no ruby window, should be adjustedto give just sufficient light to enable theworker to see without straining the eyes. Plates. Any make of plate of the rapidity knownas Ordinary, are the best to start with. It 14 THE BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHY. is supposed that the slide is one of thebook-form kind, as supplied with moststand cameras. It is unfastened bymoving aside the clips, and laid flaton the bench or table, and the partitionof metal or black cardboard found inside,if removable, is taken out. The box ofplates is next opened, and a plate liftedout by the edges, care being taken not totouch the sensitive surface. The plate The slide may now be taken out of thedark-room, and the camera set up. Choice of Subject. A typical open landscape or view shouldbe chosen for the first experiment; a largegaiden with nothing in the foreground tostop the light will be just the thing. Inthe event of a garden not being available,a scene similar to that shown by Fig. 10. tig. lu.—Example of Simple Subject fok Beginners. is laid, film downward, in the rebateof the slide (see Fig. 9). The film sideis easily distinguished by its dull andmilky appearance, the glass side beingsmooth and shiny. The dividing partitionis placed on the top of the plate, and plate is taken from the box, andplaced in the slide on top of the partition,with the film side up. The slide is thenclosed and fastened. The shutters may aswell be pulled out and pushed back again,to see that all is in working order. The-catches, which stop them from being acci-^dentally withdrawn, should then be fixed. should be selected, where, it will benoticed, there is nothing sufiiciently nearto the camera to cast heavy than either is an advertisementhoarding, where there is plenty ofclear print to focus all on one camera having been erected in posi-tion, the cap is removed and the scenefocussed sharply
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