The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-07-23
Advances in Photographs,
From the New York Post.

from the New York POST
DIR. Arthur H. Elliott, the managin,
editor OF a weil-known journal devot,
ed to photography, was asked bv !
reporter OF the Evening Post as to the.
most notable recent advances in tha
art OF photography. "The dry plata
and the paper negative" answered
DIR. Elliot, frank as the most remark
able advances OF the last 10 years
The dry plate, which is almost too
we'll known to need any description
made photography so easy that il
opened the art to amateurs, and r.
its invention we owe the wonderful n.
terest in photography taken bv
the 10000 amateur photographers
IN this country. Before the in.
vention OF the dry plate it re-.
quired a chemical laboratory Ia
take pictures; man who wanted to
90 about the country taking views of
the interesting objects he came across
had to have mule to carry the ont.
fit. Nowadays thanks to the dry
plate and the wonderfully compact
and ingenious devices made, he can
accomplish the same result with an
apparatus which will almost 90 into
his pocket. The use of the paper neg
ative, which is but the revival Of an
old process invented by Fox Talbot
somewhere about 1854, has still fur.
ther simplifed matters, and now an
apparatus is sold which enables q
tourist to make hundreds of photo.
graphs without even the trouble 81
putting in and taking out a glass
plate; the operator has simply to
turn little crank at the top oi
his camera and take the cap of his
lens when he wants to get picture.
The camera contains two rollers upon
which is wound the sensitive papers
in passing from one roller to the other
the paper passes across the field OF
the camera. The number of pictures
depends upon the length OF paper
wound upon the rollers; the moment
q picture has been taken a few turns
of the little crank winds it UP and
brings more paper into the field ready
tor another exposure. This paper neg
ative, about which so much is said to-
day in Photographic journals and
conventions, is simply the use of
sheet OF paper instead of sheet Of
glass upon which to deposit the sensi-
tive coating of gelatine and bromideoi
silver; after the picture is developed
by the use of the proper chemicals, the
paper is made transparent by wash
ing in castor oil, and then a positive
can be made upon ordinary silver pa
per. The positive from paper
negativa is just as clear and
beautiful picture as from glass neg,
ative and none but an expert can tell
the difference; one cannot be said to
be better than the other. The objec-
tion to the paper negative is the oil
Ing operation, which is delicate and
dirty; it must be perfectly done or the
uCkdtlNG Will HOI 10 VIhkl1 pNACMt
enough. English and German inven-
tors have recently produced paper ne
atives with q gelatine coating on both
sides, making the paper permanently
transparent and therefore needing no
oiling. The specimens ! have seen
answer their purpose admirably.
Manufacturers In this country are now
at work experimenting with these
double-coated papers and compIete
success is only a matter OF time.
These two inventions will reduce tho
cost of photography one third. The
time is fast coming when the cost oi
the material in photography will %
almost nothing and the public Will
pay for the art OF the photographs"
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