Instruction in photography
By: by Sir W. de W. Abney
Contributors: Epstean Collection of Books on Photography and Its Applications in the Graphic Arts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: 11th edition, revised and reset throughout.
Publisher: Iliffe & Sons
Published: 1905
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 676
Subjects: Photography; Handbooks, manuals; Plates
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The action of light on silver compounds; title: The action of the spectrum; title: Theory of development; title: Theory of intensification; title: -Phenomena in development; title: The physical phenomena in sensitive films, including halation; title: The dark room and its fittings; title: Apparatus; title: Lenses, "stops," and "pinholes," theoretically considered; title: Lenses and shutters; title: Preparation of gelatine emulsions; title: Preparation of the plates; title: Measurements of densities of negatives and depth of colour in prints; title: Measuring the transparency, the speed, and gradation of plates; title: Exposure of the gelatine plates; title: Alkaline development of the plate; title: Ferrous oxalate developer-the alum and fixing baths; title: Intensifying and varnishing gelatine negatives; title: Gelatino-chloride emulsion; title: Gelatino-bromide paper and films; title: Defects in gelatine negatives; title: Preparations for wet plate photography; title: Developers and intensifiers for wet plates; title: Manipulations in wet plate photography; title: Defects in wet plate negatives,. etc.; title: Collodion dry plate processes; title: Details of dry plate processes with the bath; title: Colloclion emulsion processes == Paper processes; title: Hand camera and film photography 3; title: Copying plans, engravings, etc.; title: Production of transparencies and enlargements; title: Artificial lighting; title: The failure of a photographic law; title: Orthochromatic photography; title: Tri-chromatic photography for producing coloured pictures; title: Theory of silver printing; title: Preparation of sensitive papers; title: Preparation of the negative for printing; title: Printing, toning, and fixing; title: Defects in prints; title: Collodio and gela tino-citro-cbloriLle paper; title: Printing.with salts of iron and uranium; title: The platinotype printing process; title: Mounting prints; title: Theory of printing with di-chromates; title: The carbon process; title: The powder process; title: A photo-type process; title: Photo-lithography and zincogrnphy; title: Photo-reliefs and photo-engraving; title: Half-tone blocks.