Little Falls transcript., 1886-07-23
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From thu New Y ork Po :3s| 81
. Dr. Arthur b. Elliott the managing !
editor 81 q we'll own ijournal deyot-5
ed 70 photography, was asked w S. Il
reporter of the Evening, Post asto che
most notable recent advances il the
art 81 photo ply The dry plate
and the paper negative, 81 answered
Dr., Elliot, rank 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 II
opened the art to amateurs, and to \
it's invention We owe the wonderful In
terest in. photography taken BY
the 10000 amateur phot otographers
IN this country. Before the d IN =
vention OF the dry plate it re.
quired a chemical laboratory to Z
take pictures; q man who wanted TO
60 about the country taking views OF
the interesting objects he came across
had to have mule to carry the out
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 go 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 simplified matters, and now an
apparatus is sold which enables a
tourist to make hundreds of photo
graphs without even the trouble OF
putting in and taking out: q glass
plate; the operator has simply to
turn a little crank at the top 5oi
his camera and take the cap oh his
lens when he wants to get d picture.
The camera contains two rollers upon
which is wound the sensitive paper;
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
picture has been taken few turns
OF the little crank winds it up and
brings more paper into the field ready
for another exposure. This paper neg
ative, about which so much is said to-
day in Photographic journals and
conventions, is simply the use OF q
sheet OF paper instead Of a sheet OF
glass upon which to deposit the sensi-
tive coating OF gelatine and bromide of
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 positive
can be made upon ordinary silver pa
per. The positive from q paper
negative is just as clear and
beautiful a picture as from a glass neg
atlve 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
negative will not be transparent
enough. English and German inven-
tors have recently produced paper ne
atives with a gelatine coating on both
sides, making the paper permanently
transparent and therefore needing no
oiling. The specimens I have seen
answer their purpose admirably.
Manufacturers in this country are now
at work experimenting with these
double-coated papers and complete
success is only matter OF time.
These two inventions will reduce the
cost OF photography one third. The
time is fast coming when the cost OF
the material in photography will be
almost nothing and the public will
pay for the art OF the photographer" :"