Chapter I. The History of Photography. II. The Theory of Photography.
III. Light. IV. The Camera. V. About Lenses. VI. The Diaphragm, or Stop. VII. Glass-house Construction. VIII. Under the Skylight. IX. The Application of Art Principles. X. Outdoor Operations. XI. Exposure, or the Question of Time. XII. Concerning Chemicals. XIII. Dark-room Contrivances. XIV. Negative-making—“Wet.” XV. Negative-making—“Dry.” XVI. Negative-making—“Paper and Film.” XVII. Retouching and Doctoring the Negative. XVIII. Printing on Albumenized Paper. XIX. Printing—Drawbacks and Defects; Causes and Remedies. XX. Printing-room Particulars. XXI. Peculiar Printing Processess. XXII. Color-Sensitive Photography—Isochromatic—Orthochromatic. XXIII. Photo-engraving. XXIV. Lantern Slides and Transparencies.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Original spelling and grammar are generally retained, with a few exceptions noted below. A few missing full stops were supplied silently. Original italics _looks like this_. The original page numbers are shown like this: |97|. The original pagination is screwy. The Introduction is on pp. xv–xvi, and then the next page is numbered 9. There are no pp. 1–8. Illustrations have been moved from within paragraphs to between. Blank pages have been removed. Footnotes have been moved from within paragraphs to between paragraphs. Ditto marks have been removed, with text restructured as necessary to retain the original meaning. Similarly, large curly brackets—used to combine information on more than one line of text—have been removed. The original Index employed white space to indicate words or phrases to be regarded as repeated from the text line above. This edition employs instead the character U+2015 HORIZONTAL BAR ―, one for each word to be repeated.
Page 36. The left double quotation mark has no mate, but is retained as printed.
Page 73. The phrase “sheet of Bristol paper and are of pressing board” is retained as printed.
Page 84. The second _at_ was removed from “strength of 2° Baumé at at a temperature”.
Page 103. Changed _zince_ to _zinc_, in “take the zince plate”.
Page 134. Changed “throughly melted” to “thoroughly melted”.
Page 140. Changed “with a a glue roller” to “with a glue roller”.
Page 141. Changed “difcult to handle” to “difficult to handle”.
Page 182, entry _Exposure_. Changed “timeing” to “timing”. Likewise, on page 184, the entry _Timeing_ was changed to _Timing_.