Bobby. "I have just finished digging and raking my garden, and now I want five cents."
Mamma. "What, five cents for making your garden?"
Bobby. "No, mamma, not for making the garden, but to buy a package of succotash seed."
This Department is conducted in the interest of Amateur Photographers, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor Camera Club Department.
PAPERS FOR BEGINNERS, No. 8.
OVER-EXPOSED PLATES, AND HOW TO TREAT THEM.
The process of developing a negative would be very easily and quickly mastered if the exposure of the sensitive plates were always timed exactly right. Correct exposure, however, is the exception rather than the rule of amateur photography. To get good negatives, therefore, the amateur must learn to distinguish between a correct and incorrect exposure of the plate, and how to treat it, if incorrectly exposed, in order to preserve the image which is impressed on it.