How to Make a Fixing Bath.
—To make a good fixing bath for dry plates dissolve 1 ounce of hypo, 60 grains of sulphite of soda in crystals and ¹⁄₄ ounce of borax in 20 ounces of water. A developer can only be used for one or two plates but you can fix 50 plates in the same fixing bath.
A Good and Cheap Camera.
—To take real pictures you want a real camera. Now there are many kinds of hand cameras but there is only one size that I am going to try to interest you in and that is one which will make pictures 3¹⁄₂ × 4¹⁄₂ inches.
With a camera of this size you can take nicely proportioned little pictures to give to your friends, to keep in your album, to make enlargements of and to make lantern slides of by direct contact printing and this will save you a lot of trouble.
Fig. 57. two cheap and good cameras
A. A Brownie box kodak.
B. A folding kodak.
The cheapest 3¹⁄₄ × 4¹⁄₄ camera you can buy is a No. 3 Brownie box kodak,[51] see [A Fig. 57], which costs about $3.00. A folding No. 3 Brownie camera, shown at [B], will serve your needs much better and this one will cost you in the neighborhood of $5.50, or you can buy a Graflex camera[52] for $75.00 if father is rich and mother doesn’t care.
[51] These cameras can be bought most anywhere or you can send to the Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. Y.