Category: Science - Chemistry/Biochemistry

A Practical Manual of the Collodion Process, Giving in Detail a Method For Producing Positive and Negative Pictures on Glass and Paper.

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 Ima...

Chapters

11. CHAPTER III.

The chemistry of Photography requires the attention, in a greater or less degree, of every practitioner. It is of the utmost importance, that those who wish to meet with success...

15. CHAPTER VII.

_Sir_,--As _Humphrey's Journal_ is the only truly progressive and independent Photographic publication in America, I feel it the duty of every one to aid its Editor in furtherin...

17. CHAPTER IX.

To explain the manner in which a photograph may be enlarged or reduced in the process of printing, it will be necessary to refer to the remarks made at page 20, on the _conjugat...

16. CHAPTER VIII.

This is a process, invented by Dr. Taupenot, for obtaining negatives on glass, which bids fair to outrival all others, being easy of manipulation, and giving results of the most...

12. CHAPTER IV.

The glass is to have its sharp edges and corners removed, by drawing a file once or twice over it. The article used for holding the glass is called a vice. This vice is firmly s...

14. CHAPTER VI.

There is probably no department of the photographic art where can be found an equal amount of variety, as regards chemicals, manipulations, etc. The course adopted in the commen...

9. CHAPTER I.

It has been well observed by an able writer, that it is Impossible to trace the path of a sunbeam through our atmosphere without feeling a desire to know its nature, by what pow...

10. CHAPTER II.

Babtista Porta, when he saw for the first time, on the walls of his dark chamber, the images of external nature, pictured by a sunbeam which found its way through only a small h...

13. CHAPTER V.

The manipulations and chemicals employed in the production of the negative collodion pictures are very similar to those already given for operating by the positive process; freq...

8. 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 S...

3. 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...

7. CHAPTER VII.

1. CHAPTER I.

4. CHAPTER IV.

2. CHAPTER II.

5. CHAPTER V.

6. CHAPTER VI.