FOCUS : i PRICE 6® a3 PHOTOGRAPHIG "post prez 7> ‘MANVALS. t 2 (SECOND: EDITION.) CONTENTS. —— Chap. I.-The Dry Plate. Chap. Il. - Plate-Speeds and Exposure, Chap. IIl.-Development. |} - zat Chap. 1V.- Fixing and { “i Washing. ' | \ Chap. V.-Intensification (No.1) and Reduction.PRINT FROM A CORRECTLY EXPOSED NEGATIVE. By T. Thorne Baker.Successful NeGatTiveE MAKING. G88 CHAPTER I.—All about the Dry Plate. Tho dry plate—The action of light on silver salts—The essential differences between slow and rapid plates — The choice of plates—Orthochromatic plates. HE state of photography nowadays is such that the amateur and professional alike are surrounded by an _ over- whelming mass of all kinds of materials —cameras, plates, films, papers, chemi- cals—with the inevitable result that any one individual who does not succeed with a certain class of goods will prefer to leave it and try another, rather than try to ascer- tain the reasons for his failure. It is not enough, furthermore, to be satisfied if we are successful; let us endeavour to find out why success has attended our efforts, every bit as much as failure, so that a clear knowledge of the principles of photography shall guide our future work, and make us as inde- pendent as possible of facts, formule, and friends. It will be our aim in writing this book to put before our readers the ways and means of making a successful negative under ordinary, and difficult, circumstances, and we shall endeavour to give a simply-worded reason for everything that is recom- mended to be done, so that an intelligent interest may be taken in the work, which thereby becomes doubly fascinating. B