Lantern slides, how to make and color them (1897)

Record Details:

Title:
Lantern slides, how to make and color them
Date:
1897
Publisher:
New York : E. & H.T. Anthony
Volume:
Lantern slides, how to make and color them
Leaf #:
00048
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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39 If the slides are to be colored they must not be mounted until afterwards. Sometimes a reproduction of printed matter oi- of a line drawing is required. The negatives of such subjects should be intense, but clear. Negatives which are very thick and black are often called intense when not so at all. A very poor flat image is mas- querading under cover of a thick mass of fog— that's all. Clearness is an essential for line work. The lines or printed matter should appear as clear glass on the negative. After adjusting a slide plate on the negative, it should be exposed a very short time, say, one second or even a half second; this, of course, depends upon the clearness of the negative. The exposed plate should be developed with Anthony's hydroquinone developer without dilu- tion, adding one or two drops of the bromide solution to 3 ounces of developer. The develop- ment should be carried on till the lines or letters appear very black and the whites just the least bit tinged by the developer, when the plate should be removed, rinsed and thoroughly fixed. This same method of procedure will often yield fine slides from negatives which are so thin that paper prints from them are an impossi- bility. Very intense negatives yield but fair slides at best, excepting those intended for line work, and the like. The proper method, with the exception noted, is long exposure and weak developer.