A manual of photography
By: by Robert Hunt.
Edition: 4th ed., rev.
Series: Encyclopaedia metropolitana (2nd ed., rev.) -- v. 16.
Publisher: Richard Griffin
Published: 1854
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Photography -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Photography -- History.; Photography -- Processing.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. History of discoveries in photography. Ch. 1. Early researches on the chemical action of the solar rays; title: CH. II. Heliography - the process of M. Niepce; title: Ch. III. Mr. H. Fox Talbot's photogenic drawings, calotype & c; title: CH. IV. Daguerreotype : the discovery of M. Daguerre; title: Ch. V. The photographic processes on paper of Sir John Herschel; title: Ch. VI. Miscellaneous process; title: Ch. VII. Photographs on glass plates and recent improvements; title: Ch. VIII. Portraiture by the daguerreotype; title: Ch. IX. General summary of the history of photography; title: Part II. Scientific investigations on photography. Ch. I. General remarks on the solar agency producing chemical change; title: Ch. II. Chemical changes on sensitive preparations; title: Ch. III. The theory of the daguerreotype; title: Ch. IV. On the photographic registration of philosophical instruments and the means of determining the variations of actinic power and for experiments on the chemical focus; title: Ch. V. Thermography; title: Ch. VI. On the possibility of producing photographs in ther natural colours; title: Ch. VII. On lenses for the photographic camera; title: Part III. Practice of photography. Ch. I. Selections of paper for photographic purposes; title: Ch. II. On the apparatus necessary for the first practice of photography on paper; title: Ch. III. On the modes of manipulation adopted in the preparation of sensitive papers; title: Ch. IV. On fixing the photographic pictures; title: Ch. V. The calotype as now practised, and its modifications; title: Ch. VI. The daguerreotype; title: Ch. VII. The collodion process; title: Ch. VIII. The use of albumen on glass plates; title: Ch. IX. On the production of positive photographs by the use of the salts of iodine; title: Ch. X. General remarks on the use of the camera obscura : the photographic pentagraph; title: Ch. XL. The stereoscope; title: CH. XII. Photographic engraving.