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WRITE TODAY CAMERA SPECIALTY CO. 48 West 29th Street New York City Kodachrome MAPS CHARTS FINE TITLES GEO. W. COLBURN LABORATORY Special Motion Picture Printing 995-A Merchandise Mart, Chicago pensating for this is done by what is known during enlargement of still photographs as "dodging." In other words, while the drum is rotated during exposure, the thin portion of the negative is shielded for a portion of the time by a piece of card. In the same way, any dense portion of the negative may be given extra exposure. "And now," the critical reader may ask, "how about compensation when the exposure errors are scattered here and there over the film?" This is still possible, but the average worker may hardly think it worthwhile because the method is somewhat elaborate. The method I suggest is the use of a small flashlight held at a fixed distance of an inch or so from the film while it revolves, and with a narrow slit through the end of the flashlight so that the light is concentrated over one film width only. In this way, by varying the exposure time, it should theoretically be possible to compensate. Naturally, nothing like the results obtained by film laboratories with automatic compensating equipment based on the Selenium Cell method can be hoped for, but I throw out the suggestion as worthy of investigation by those amateurs who do not mind taking pains over tests. It should be successful if one is careful to fix the flashlight sc that distance from the film cannot vary at all. Some sort of mechanical traveling device for the light is obviously necessary, and the addition of a condenser to bring a concentrated spot of light from the flashlight would also be ideal. The exposure could be calculated by so many revolutions for a normal negative — or, alternatively, one revolution for each exposure with the light intensity to be varied either by resistance fitted to the light, or by varying the distance of the light from the film. In the absence of a flashlight resistance, un old lens diaphragm would do. I have tried the dodging method, and though it needs a little practice in estimating the variation in exposure, this is well worthwhile. Here is yet another method of exposure compensation which may appeal to people who like messing about with different developers. Develop the negative on the drum until the majority of it is corrct. Then wash and bring up the under-exposed parts by local application of a developer with a piece of cotton. Obviously this method can only be applied when one-third or one-half of the drum has the under-exposed portions together. I have tried this very successfully with a first developer of Acid Amidol, bringing up the under-exposed portions by applying the Amidol to the film with cotton. The Amdiol is not acid at all and has an extra portion of Soda Carb. in it. Beware of fog when doing this. When a complete portion of the arum holds under-exposed film this continuation of development is probably the easiest of all because it gives that portion of the film which is underexposed the prolonged and proper development, thereby insuring a better result finally than giving of less exposure to a thin negative. To summarize this technique, the processes are: i. First development in ordinary negative developer to produce a thin negative image. i. Switch on white light and print this negative image on the emulsion beneath. Dodge the lighting for exposure errors, or continue partial development by application of Acid Amidol for under-exposed parts. 3. Switch off white light, wash, and Femove the negative image in reversal bath. 4. Wash for 5 minutes. 5. Give sulphite whitening bath until stain is removed. 6. Wash for 5 minutes. 7. Develop the printed image in an ordinary M. Q. Developer. 8. Fix and harden. 9. Final wash. The whole process takes only about half an hour and is most interesting. In tropical countries it has one very great advantage. The normal reversal method employs such a strong caustic developer at the outset that gelatine softening and reticulation is extremely difficult to avoid, and can only be done by copious ministrations of sodium sulphate, formalin, etc., in the developer, or by employing other hardening methods. In the Jepson process there is no preliminary softening of the gelatine bycaustic, with the result that I have found a welcome absence of reticulation. It should be remembered that even before reticulation starts in ordinary processing with temperatures over 70, there is a preliminary invisible softening which destroys hundred per cent definition! GOOD NEWS! Effective October 1st, the War Production Board modified the restrictions applying to sale of photoflood lamps, permitting dealers to sell lamps to nonpriority users such as commercial and professional photographers. While this order does not make photoflood lamps immediately available to amateur movie' makers, it may indicate that such a step may not be far distant. Much depends, of course, on the trend of the war and its effect on production of nonessential war-time goods. In the meantime, all of us can speed the day with extra effort in war bond purchase*.