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. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... sky gives a light which is very difficult to manage, and any attempts at out-of-door portraiture, even with wet collodion, had better be deferred to the time when experience has made the way easier; while dry-plate work is still less likely to be successful. The extreme of portability and economy in the use ...
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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. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... sky gives a light which is very difficult to manage, and any attempts at out-of-door portraiture, even with wet collodion, had better be deferred to the time when experience has made the way easier; while dry-plate work is still less likely to be successful. The extreme of portability and economy in the use of material is given by the so-called " Pocket" Camera, (invented by Mr. C. D. Smith, of 153, Fleet-street, to whose ingenuity we are indebted for many devices to render photography more easy for tourists and amateurs especially), fitted with a single combination landscape lens. It gives pictures of the size of 4 X 3 or 5 X 4 inches (or may be made larger if required, but these will be found exceedingly convenient sizes), and in these dimensions may easily be carried in the pocket of a paletot, with all its accessories, except the tripod, which makes a staff. The lens is what is known as the meniscus--the most convenient for use where a brief exposure is not imperative and no straight lines occur in the margins of the picture. It brings the distance and foreground into focus more equally, and covers the whole plate with more sharpness than a double lens, and is considered by experienced landscape photographers to give a more brilliant and satisfactory negative than any other form. The next size larger, most to be recommended, is 7j X 4, or, as Mr. Gordon prefers, 7J X 5J; but the former seems to me preferable, as it makes a print which answers admirably for illustration for an ordinary octavo volume, and, at the same time, by the addition of a partition in the centre and a pair of stereoscopic lenses, may be used for taking stereoscopic negatives. Larger sizes than this, the most convenient for general purposes, are 8X5 and...
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