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Photography in the Studio and Field
Circa 1886
Only$8
"A practical manual designed as a companion alike to the professional and the amateur photographer."
This is a MUST HAVE for every photographer, or art historian. Practical guidebook to this day.
On CD shipped FREE ANYWHERE IN THE U.S.A.
It will contain the entire 273 documents, with all illustrations, drawings and charts. You can read it on the computer, save it print it out.
In 1886 there were few cameras. The hand held KODAK, was yet to be marketed. The only people producing photographs were professionals and fanatic amateurs - simply because photography was not easy and automatic like it is today.
This CD brings to you the processes that existed at that time, the formulas, the secrets of manipulation. In the beginning, you are introduced into "subbing" glass, preparing collodion for making wet plate negatives like Garnder and Brady did, or for making tintypes. You get details and formulas for the developer, fixer, and intensifier.
And in 1887, the new modern gelatin dry plates were the rage because they were so much more convenient.
You'll get details on "cooking" your own emulsion, coating plates (an art in itself), the developers in use (usually pyro), fixers, clearing baths and more.
You get details on sensitizing albumen paper, making your print, toning, spotting, mounting and all the rest.
You get lots of engravings of cameras, lenses, print frames, camera stands, head rests, posing chairs and the other details a professional might need for portraits.
Part II covers field photography.
Since gelatin dry plates freed the photographer from carrying around a nasty, corrosive silver nitrate bath, outdoor photography was not only easy but a lot more fun to do.
You get the latest advice on handling dry plates, putting them in plate holders, and exposing them.
You get more engravings of detective cameras, satchel cameras, view lenses, drop shutter, Prosch's popular shutter, Eastman's negative paper, printing on albumen, collodio-chloride, and a section on cyanotypes, uranium prints, and more.
You even get details on "bicycle photography".
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