The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (March 1895)

40 The Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger. From June 29th to July 6th in conjunction with the International Tobacco Trades Exhibition, to be held at the Agricultural Hall, N.,an exhibition of unframed photographs will take place, the entry fee will be one shilling a print, and certain prizes will be awarded. Mr. W. D. Welford, 59, Chancery Lane, is the general manager of the photographic section. Tre Royal Photographic Society, which became | incorporated on the Ist January in this year, ; have determined that the Society shall here. after consist of two classes, Members and Fellows. In future, no members will be admit| ted to the fellowship until they have given the | Council satisfactory proof of the possession by : them of suitable qualifications for the _title F.R.P.S., which in this way will become a guarantee of distinct ability on the part of its holder in either scientific or artistic photography. The large accession of members to the Society within the past few months has rendered its migration to larger and more convenient premi| rm m ' to them, and as for camerists, it will doubtless have this matter now under their consideration, | ses imperatively necessary, and the Council we * AN important photographic case was lately decided at the Brentford County Court. It appears that Messrs. Theobald & Co. sued Messrs. Thomas, of Acton, for the wrongful conversion of negatives belonging to the Plaintiffs. Previous to selling their business to Mr. Walter Tyler, Defendants had been in the habit of making | lantern slides for the Plaintiffs from drawings or | pictures submitted to them, at a certain price ‘ per dozen, and in order to do so they had first | to make negatives, and these negatives were © transferred to the purchaser with the business. : So as to get control of these negatives, the Plaintiffs paid the purchaser of the business £11 1s. 5d., and it was to recover this amount together with damages for loss through detention that the action was brought. Several witnesses were called to prove that according to the custom of the trade, the negative under these circumstances remained the property of the owners of the pictures from which they were copied. It had been held that in the case of portrait negatives upon actions for injunction that the holder could not use them at his will, but had never been ordered to give them up, so His Honour, Judge Bagshaw, said that this looked as though they could not enforce such anorder. After the hearing of much evidence it was stated that it _ was evident a special agreement had been made business could have supplied slides from the negatives when required by the Plaintiffs, His Honour found for the Defendants, as he failed to ascertain that there was any custom in the Plaintiff’s trade different to that in the general photographic trade, where the negatives were held by the photographer, though he could not use them as he chose. ——:0:—— A Folding Tripod Head for Camera or Lantern. THE order of the day seems to a certain extent to make apparatus go into as small a compass as possible, and as we have never before seen an account of a particularly neat form of head, which we have had in use for several years past, we submit the same to our readers. As a great many lanternists have of late taken to tripod stands for their.lanterns this form may be useful be hailed with a certain amount of delight. The wood portions are formed of tough three-quarter inch wood, the central one a, Fig. 1, being six inches long. The extreme length of the other two arms B and c is four and three-quarter inches. The lower end of a must be made in the form of a butt, as shown. The portions B and c are fastened to a by means of hinges, one side of which should be well insetted : p, a circular brass plate is fastened to a, by means of a couple of screws and a hole drilled, as at 5, so as to enable the lantern or camera to be secured. This little apparatus may be folded up as shown in Fig. II., when it will be found to measure 6 x 21 x inches, not a large package to carry in the breast pocket of one’s coat. The mode of fastening the stand to this head will be at once understood from Fig. III. A brass piece F, containing two peg projections, is fasttened to the end of each arm for the purpose of in this instance, and that the purchaser of the ; holding the ends of the legs of the stand.