The advance of photography : its history and modern applications (1911)

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242 THE ADVANCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY is made for the colour screens to be held in front of the lens, and a dark slide is used which will hold the three plates. Sanger-Shepherd, however, supplies a dark slide with repeating back in which all three negatives can be taken upon one plate. This is illustrated in diagram (103). The three screens — blue, green, and red — which are seen on the right are clipped in a frame to the front of the dark slide, which stands next. They are then placed with the plate in the repeating-back case of the camera, and are passed one after another in front of the single opening seen in the figure. By this means it is absolutely certain that light of one colour only reaches any third of the plate, and the result is that by this means three negatives of the object can be obtained which differ only in their respective Fig. 103. , J ... r 5 densities. The three negatives are illustrated by the figure to the left of the illustration. Cameras with repeating backs are, of course, inconvenient, and, in fact, impossible when the object it is desired to photograph is moving, for, of course, in whatever form the camera is made three exposures must be made. This has been one great drawback in three-colour photography. Several attempts have therefore been made to produce a camera in which all three negatives can be exposed at the same time. E. T. Butler has devised one in which the principle involved is the same as that of the Ives Kromskop1 (p. 241). Others have been invented by Sir 1 See also description by Dr Mees, Journ. of Photog., July 1908.