S. D. H.
[CONTENTS.]
| [PART I.] | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Introduction—Light—Solar Spectrum—Decomposition of Light—Light—Heat and Actinism—Blue Paper and Color for the Walls of the Operating Room—Proportions of Light, Heat and Actinism composing a Sunbeam—Refraction—Reflection—Lenses—Copying—Spherical Aberration—Chromatic Aberration | [13] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Camera—Arrangement of Lenses—Camera Tubes—Camera Boxes, Bellows, and Copying—Camera Stands—Head Rests—Cleaning Vice—Nitrate Bath—Leveling Stands—Printing Frames—Collodion Vials | [26] |
| [PART II.] | |
| Practical Hints on Photographic Chemistry. | |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Soluble Cotton—Manipulation—Plain Collodion—Bromo-Iodized Collodion for Positives—Ditto for Negatives—Solution of Bromide and Iodide of Potassium and Silver—Double Iodide of Potassium and Silver—Developing Solution—Fixing the Solution—Brightening and Finishing the Image—Photographic Chemicals | [41] |
| [PART III.] | |
| Practical Details of the Positive or Ambrotype Process. | |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Lewis's Patent Vices for Holding the Glass—Cleaning and Drying the Glass—Coating—Exposure in the Camera—Developing—Fixing or Brightening—Backing up, &c. | [129] |
| [PART IV.] | |
| Practical Details of the Negative Process. | |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Negative Process—Soluble Cotton—Plain Collodion—Developing Solution—Re-Developing Solution—Fixing the Image—Finishing the Image—Nitrate of Silver Bath | [143] |
| [PART V.] | |
| Practical Details of the Printing Process. | |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Printing Process—Salting Paper—Silvering Paper—Printing the Positive—Fixing and Coloring Bath—Mounting the Positive—Facts worth Knowing | [151] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Helio Process.—An Entire Process for Producing Collodion Positives and Negatives with one Bath, and in much less time than by any other known Process: by Helio—Photographic Patents | [164] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| The Collodio-Albumen Process in Detail | [190] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| On a Mode of Printing Enlarged and Reduced Positives, Transparencies, &c., from Collodion Negatives—On the Use of Alcohol for Sensitizing Paper—Recovery of Silver from Waste Solutions,—from the Black Deposit of Hypo Baths, &c.—The Salting and Albumenizing Paper—On the Use of Test Papers—Comparison of British and French Weights and Measures | [191] |