The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-24
THE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER
TO DRY PLATE QUICKLY.

TO DRY A PLATE QUICKLY.
To dry a plate quickly after washing
remove as much water as possible by
wiping the plate with the edge of the
hand. Then dry with huffiess blotting
paper or clean, dry rag. Now immerse
in good methylated spirit for three min
utes. Drain off one corner, set UP on
edge opposite an open window, but do
not empoly heat. A small sheet Of
cardboard or a japanese fan is just the
thing in this case.
VIEW FINDER.
A landscape viewed through piece OF
blue glass gives one a fairly correct idea
Of the relative Photographic light and
shade in the picture. 1t is a good plan
to usea piece in connection with The
view finder, or even to tint the finder
glass itself Another plan is to place
piece of blue glass in front OF the lens
when focusing to see the relative shades
on the screen. Methods of doing this
will suggest themselves to the reader;
for instance, sticking a ring or collar of
wood on tine glass to fit the lens or hood,
TOWELING INSTEAD OF BLOTTING
PAPER
Instead of putting the prints on blot
ting paper, a piece OF bath toweling is
much better. A yard of rough bath
towelin, half yard wide, should be
put on the back OF the prints when they
are laid wet on the enameled slab or
glass plate. This will be found TO be nice
for rolling the squeegee on and the print
will De smoothed out without air bub-
bles. All the superfuous water is taken
up by the towel, so that, placed in a
warm room. the prints soon dry and peel
off. II will be a long time before the
towel is too wet to do its work, but 1t
can soon De dried at the kitchen fire and
is then ready again.
STRIPPING A FILM.
Frequently when a enameling gela-
tinochloride prints by squeegeeing them
on to the glass il is found that they will
stick and refuse to strip. II the glass
is placed fiat on the table. and the back
OF rheprint rubbed over with formaline
till quite saturated, and then allowed TO
dry, the print will readily strip.
ANTI-FOG.
Workers who use amidol and find that
they get fog are recommended 10 try
few drops only OF a saturated solution OF
hyposulphite Of soda. Besides acting as
an an;i-fog. II slightly accelerates the
action of the amidol. II acts equally
we'll as an scceierator with ferrous sui
phate and oxalate Of potash developer.
COLOR WORK.
Mr.. Edward Leaning. VI. D.. in a re-
cent issue of the Royal Photographic
Journal. demonstrates the possibility of
graphs by the three-coior process He
states that the color screens are colo
dion films stained with Hoffman's vol
lei. malachiie green and mixture OF
eOsine B and aurangia, and, as VIII De
noticed, are complimentary 70 the three
primary colors with whicf, the final
print is made. For the negatives pro-
duced with the orange red and green
screens, isochromstic plates are used;
that made with me violet screen is non
isochrOnaat!c From these negatives
coll5type printing plates are made and
printed On Autographs press the yeI-
.ow print first. the red supe-imppsed On
/. and the blue on the other 5xo. DR..
Leaning mentions that in taking tne
age and the light are frs cents-=i and
adjusted. the focusing being done
through a yellow screen; the yellow
screen is removed. ami then in succe-s-
sion the orange-Tei, The green and the
viole; screens are substituted and
negative made with escn- T1ere can oe
no doubt that X. as Is pointed o1i.
photographic colorS illustrations can 0e
INTRODUCED into scientific books q 2fTl
be great gain. especially IN the
science % photo pny.
THE TEMPERATURE or THE LENS
In Indoor Photography it /. vel 70 re-
member cha; the lens should be KEEP; q
the same temperature as the non II
a lens - brought from a col3 room % enc
oonside-soiy warmer. cSniEn<zrson EiE
take place and toeyed plates Eia be tie
result