The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (December 1890)
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THE OPTICAL
MAGIC
LANTERN
— JOURNAL ——
AND
PHOTOGRAPHIC ENLARGER.
EDITED BY J.
HAY TAYLOR.
Vol. 2._No. 19. [sd2!fiu] DECEMBER 1, 1890.
Price One Penny.
CONTENTS. PAGE. PAGE. Notes .-. vee cee cee eee ee OD Flashes on Lantern Topics ... 65 The Lantern for Suflering | Shenstone's Enlarging AppaHumanity (A New Scheme) 60 | TALUS... ce eee eee wee 5 ‘Oil Lamps oe eee cee tre eee 60 A Light Folding Tent ... ... 60 Hand Cameras for Obtaining Editorial Table... 00... 66 Slides for the Lantern—No.$ 61 | Correspondence.— Ether-OxyHints on Enlarging... ... «.. 62 gen Saturator — Chromo‘The Photography of MicroLitho Stides—Gas Bag Exscopic Objects Se seep Nea NO plosions is. asc see) oes see GT An Effective Intermediate Society Meetings ... «. «. OS Regulator » OF | Notes and Querics .. ... «-. 70
\Chromo-Litho Slides see OF
Contents oF No. 1S.
Notes—The Advantage of Large Object Glasses for Lanterns—Hand Cameras for Obtaining Slides for the Lantern(No. 7}—The Influence
of Size in Lantern Objectives—Flashes on Lantern Topics—How to :
Enjoy Looking at Lantern ‘Yransparencies without a Lantern— Hints on Enlarging—The Arc Light for Projection—A Scheme of Lantern Slide Exchange—Open-Air Entcrtainments—An Optical Pointer—Editorial Table—Correspondence (Washing Sitters’ Faces —_Ether-Oxygen Saturator—Copying by Artificial Light)—Society Meetings—Notes and Queries.
Notices.
THe Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger is issued on the Ist of every month, price One Penny, and may be obtained from all Newsvendors, Railway News Stalls, Photographic Dealers, or from the Publishers, at the following rates, post free :—
Continental. United States. 12months ... 1/6 ... 2/ 60 cents. Single copies... /f4 .-[2 ww. ws 6
Advertisements (Scale of Charges), displayed :— £
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a Front and back pages, by arrangement.
Ordinary page, facing matter(whole) ... 3 0 0 . me .. (half)... 1 15 0 Si “ v» (quarter)... £ 0 0 4 ass (eighth) ... 10 oO 44 ‘s per I inch in column ... 6 0 ” 2 3.0
” n 2 ” 2 tee Special quotations for a series. Exchange Column, General Wants, &c. (not Trade)— First 20 words, 6d.; and for every 3 additional words, 1d.
Advertisements must reach the office not later than the | 24th of each month. All cheques and postal orders to be made payable to Taylor Brothers. !
Editorial communications must be addressed, The Editor; ! advertisements and business communications to Taylor : Brothers, care of the Publishers, Dorset (Works, Salisbury | Square, Fleet Street, London, E.C.
American Agents :—The International News Co., 83 and 85, Duane Street, New York City.
Notes.
Tris Journal will be sent post free for six months to anyone sending a clean copy of No. 1 to the Editor.
* * * ATTENTION is directed to the first article in this issue, Zhe Lantern for Suffering Humanity.
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Tus evening a smoking concert will be held at the Camera Club, and on the 4th inst. Mr. Henry Sturmey, the editor of Photography, will read a paper on “ Rollable Transparent Films.”
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Eacu visit we receive from Mr. Ranson, of 122, Newington Butts, S.E., he has a new invention to show us. His latest is a lens cap for studio use, which contains a piece of ground glass with a flap to cover it. He showed us two negatives, one of which had been exposed in the ordinary way for three seconds, the other having been exposed to the subject for a fraction of a second, and then a momentary exposure to white light with the cap mentioned. Both negatives vield fine prints. 2 x
AN excellent portrait in oil of Dr. W. A. Hunter, M.P. for North Aberdeen, has been painted by Messrs. G. W. Wilson & Co., of Aberdeen, the
: well-known makers of lantern slides. The portrait ‘is three-quarter face. | 2
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A sERreS of slides are to be prepared and music selected for an illustration by the optical lantern of the Passion Play. It is intended to give the
| lecture at St. James’s Hall.
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A caMERA taking fifty photographs per second
has been presented to the French Academy of
Science. Whilst photographing two men fencing, one was disarmed, and during the time the foil was falling to the floor, it was photographed eight times.
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Tue Lantern Society have been presented with