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October 16, 1885.J THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. The Pall Mall Gazelle has been discussing the vexed question of professional v. amateur, and has come to the conclusion that “it seems far best to retain the word amateur for inferiority of all kinds ; and to leave to the Army, Navy Church, and Medicine, the title profession. We are afraid that this principle would break down were it applied to photography, at least according to present ideas, It is odd how in numberless instances photography supplies the means to bridge over difficulties. In an interesting article in a daily paper the writer describes how, inspired by Mr. Ruskin’s teachings, he has succeeded in reviving the lost arts of spinning and weaving flax in a Westmoreland village. After, amid much discourage ment, getting the villagers to take up the spinning, he began upon the weaving, having found an old loom in a cellar in Kendal. The loom, however, was in twenty pieces, and no one knew how to put them together. But photography came to the rescue, for. “ luckily, a bright- witted lady-friend remembered that she had a photograph of the weaving on Giotto’s campanile, and, by help of that, the various parts were rightly pieced together.” Mr. Linley Sambourne, the well-known Punch artist, has made rapid strides in photography. It was only a few months ago that he was taking lessons, and we have him now exhibiting in the shop-windows the results of his instantaneous work in the Zoo. His pictures, photo graphically speaking, are, perhaps, not so perfect as those which are already in the market, but he has been singularly fortunate in catching characteristic attitudes. There is one photograph of a lion in a pose which is irresistibly comic. His bear, too, which he has taken standing on its hind legs, is also very droll. Holborn, for some reason not easily explained, is much up with photography. It is in a Holborn millinery where underneath each hat and bonnet is a photograph of a good looking young lady wearing the identical article of head gear displayed above. The proprietor of a well-known drapery establishment in the same thoroughfare puts an enlarged portrait of himself framed and coloured outside each of his two shops over his name. Another shop keeper, the owner of a miraculous ointment, exhibits photographs of the diseased limbs which he alleges he has cured. A peripatetic vendor of sweetstuff, whose “ pitch " for some years has been Wood’s Hotel, shows his photo graph on his stall, evidently considering that he is a Hol- born notability. There are not a few people who possess a picture of an omnibus of which the enterprising con ductor had a photograph taken because it was the first one that went over the Viaduct. It was the earnest desire of this conductor to sell enough of these photographs to enable him to open a public house in Holborn, but we are inclined to think he was never able to gratify his desire. Somehow, people were not so much impressed by the fact of his omnibus being the first to cross, as he was. When we say that in Holborn and its immediate vicinity are to be found more photographic dealers, photographic instrument manufacturers, and mount and frame makers, than in any other quarter of London, it will be owned we have proved our position. The photographs of the horse in motion have been turned to practical use, Colonel Dodge using them largely to illustrate his book, « A Chat in the Saddle.” The author shows that the belief which old cross-country entertain—that fast hunters, after leaping, land on their hind feet—is erroneous, and says, “ I doubt if photography would really show them to land other than on one fore foot, instantly relieved by the second one planted a short stride further on, and followed by the corresponding hind ones in succession.” This statement is amply borne out by the photograph given, which distinctly shows a horse, which has leaped a fence, striking the turf with its off fore foot. Albums, like stereoscopes, have had their day. The ingenuity of designers now runs towards brackets and frames for the table or sideboard. The latest “ nick nack” to hold a photograph is described by a trade journal as a bracket with a pocket in which the photograph is stuck, the advantage being that the whole of the photograph is shown. The effect is described as “ novel.” Very likely. Patent Untelligence. Applications for Letters Patent. 11,959. Alfred Walter DOLLAND, 42, Bishop’s Terrace, Fulham, S.W., for “ The construction of folding tripod stands.”—8th October, 1885. 12,028. Edmund Fortescue GANGE, 67, Strand, London, for “An improved shutter for photographic cameras.” — 9th October, 1885. Patent Sealed. 7422. Charles Wells, 22, Southampton Buildings, W.C., for “A method of recording by photography the degree of accuracy in aiming ordnance.”—18th June, 1885. Specification Published during the Week. 15,757. HERBERT John HADDAN, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer, for “ Improvement in helio graphic copying apparatus.” A communication to him from abroad by Hugo Sack, Engineer, of Flagwitz-Leipzig in the kingdom of Saxony.—Dated 27th August, 1885. This invention has for its object to obtain a close adhesion or fit between the sensitive paper and the original with a moderate pressure. For this purpose I employ a partial vacuum in the following manner. On the glass plate of the copying-frame is first placed the transparent drawing or photographic negative to be copied, upon the latter the sensitive paper ; on this paper a sheet of woven fabric or other suitable material permeable for air, and on the said sheet a sheet or lid of india-rubber or other hermetically- closing material, into the centre of which leads a tube. If the edges of the lid close tightly upon the glass plate, and air is sucked from the place situated between the glass plate and the lid by means of the tube, and any suitable exhausting apparatus— for instance, a sort of bellows provided with a suction valve—the sensitive paper is firmly pressed against the original, without ex erting undue pressure upon the glass plate. The glass plate may, therefore, be very thin, and may be replaced by a transparent membrane. After the air has been sufficiently rarified, the tube is closed, and the apparatus exposed to the light. In order to obtain an air-tight fit at the beginning of the ex haustion, an air-cushion may be placed all around the circumfer ence of the lid ; this annular air-cushion is exposed to the pressure of a frame, and may either be fixed to the lid or to the frame.
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