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- Ausgabe No. 1270, January 5, 1883 1
- Ausgabe No. 1271, January 12, 1883 17
- Ausgabe No. 1272, January 19, 1883 33
- Ausgabe No. 1273, January 26, 1883 49
- Ausgabe No. 1274, February 2, 1883 65
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- Ausgabe No. 1276, February 16, 1883 97
- Ausgabe No. 1277, February 23, 1883 113
- Ausgabe No. 1278, March 2, 1883 129
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- Ausgabe No. 1281, March 22, 1883 177
- Ausgabe No. 1282, March 30, 1883 193
- Ausgabe No. 1283, April 6, 1883 209
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- Ausgabe No. 1285, April 20, 1883 241
- Ausgabe No. 1286, April 27, 1883 257
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- Ausgabe No. 1290, May 25, 1883 321
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- Ausgabe No. 1297, July 13, 1883 433
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- Ausgabe No. 1307, September 21, 1883 593
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- Ausgabe No. 1319, December 14, 1883 785
- Ausgabe No. 1320, December 21, 1883 801
- Ausgabe No. 1321, December 28, 1883 817
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96 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. [February 9, 1883. Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883.—An Inter national Exhibition will be opened at Calcutta, on the 4th December next, under the patronage of His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India and His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. There will be nine principal sections:—I, fine arts; 2, apparatus and application of the liberal arts ; 3, furniture, and objects for the use of dwellings ; 4, clothing, including fabrics and objects of personal wear; 5, products of mining industry, forestry, &c. ; 6, apparatus and processes used in the common arts ; 7, food, fresh, preserved, or in various states of preservation ; 8, artizan’s workmanship ; 9, children’s work. Certificates of gold, silver, and bronze medals will be awarded by special juries of experts. An attempt will also be made to hold an exhibition of live stock, agricultural and horticultural products, and of a loan collection of paintings, sculpture, and works of art generally. The India Government has granted the use of the India Museum, together with the grounds and buildings adjoining (it is a magnificent pile of buildings, said to be the very finest in India, situated on the Maidan, facing 1 Charingliee,’ close to the Governor’s Palace, and in the very centre of Calcutta), and also voted alac-and-a- half of rupees (£15,000) to defray expenses of the Indian Court. Annexes will be erected to meet further requirements of exhibitors. All goods forwarded for exhibition and addressed to the secretary for that purpose are admitted free of duty. Calcutta is a free port, except for arms, ammunition, and military stores, liquors (beer, wine and spirits), opium, and salt. Ap plication for space, with full particulars of the intended exhibit, must be made at the office of the official Agent for Great Britain, Mr. W. P. Dilworth, 4, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, London. KUHNE's Model Eye for Demonstration Purposes.— This consists of a long rectangular trough which can be filled with water or other medium. The front end is provided with lenses and diaphragms of appropriate shape to represent the cornea and the crystalline lens ; hollow glass lenses are provided to receive the fluids serving as aqueous and vitreous humours, and a movable ground glass screen takes the place of the retina. With the help of movable lenses of various shapes which stand in the trough, all the different peculiarities and defects of vision, and the principles of the methods by which they are remedied, can be demonstrated to a class, perfect or defective vision being recognisable by clearness or blurring of the real images of ex ternal objects formed upon the ground glass plate.—-ChemicalNews. Hawthorne Photographed Unawares.—Hawthorne, you are aware, delighted to sit for his portrait, and would watch with keen interest the growth of the picture upon the canvas. You will remember his own account of sittings at Washington in 1862, the last he ever gave. “ I think,” he wrote, “ it will be the the best ever painted of the same unworthy subject. One charm it must needs have—an aspect of immortal jollity and well-to-do-ness; for Leutze, when the sitting begins, gives me a first-rate cigar, and when he sees me getting tired, he brings out a bottle of splendid champagne ; and we quaffed and smoked yesterday, in a blessed state of mutual good-will, for three hours and a half, during which the picture made a really miraculous progress. Leutze is the best of fellows.” To sit for his photograph, however, was extremely irksome, especially in later years, when, as he said, “ The sun seems to take an infernal pleasure in making me vener able, as if I were as old as himself.” J. Lothrop Motley, who well knew Hawthorne’s aversion to photographic processes, set a trap for his friend, in this wise. He invited him to walk one day in London, and as they were passing the studio of a well-known photographer, Motley asked Hawthorne to step in and make a selection from some pictures of himself which were ready, he supposed, for examination. They entered, chatting pleasantly together, Hawthorne at the time being in the best of spirits. Dropping into a chair which Motley placed for him, he looked brightly after his friend disappearing behind a screen in quest of the proofs. At this moment, and with this look of animation upon his face, the photograph referred to was taken, the artist having made all necessary preparations to capture a likeness from the unsuspecting sitter. Motley’s proofs were produced and examined, and Hawthorne was never told that he had been taken. This was shortly before the family returned home. One of the children, it seems—I think it was ethereal Una—had seen the sur reptitious picture at Motley’s or at Bennoch’s, and on the home ward voyage she referred to it, and said it was a beautiful like ness, far better than she had ever before seen. Hawthorne, of course, was incredulous, and assured his wife that the child must be mistaken. After her husband’s death, Mrs. Hawthorne became acquainted with the facts as above narrated, and at her earnest entreaty the photograph was sent to her.—Detroit Free Press. Photographic Club.—At the next meeting of this Club, Feb ruary 14th, the subject for discussion will be ‘‘On Extemporizing Apparatus in case of Loss or Breakdown when away from Home.” Gl Gorresgoudens. *** We cannot undertake to return rejected communications. L. W. R.-1. As you only wish to work up to 5 by 4, the lens you mention will serve very well as your longest focus combina tion. As your shortest, you should take an objective of the portable, symmetrical, or rectilinear type, having an equivalent focus of three inches. This, when used on a 5 by 4 plate, will give the widest of wide angles, and the defects inseparable from strained work of this character will, of course, step in, and the 3-inch lens should only be used when such a course is unavoid- aole. Either the front or the back combination of the 3-inch lens will make a useful objective for landscape work ; the pin cushion distortion, which would occur in the first case, or the barrel-shaped distortion incident to the second arrangement, being generally of little moment when ordinary landscapes are taken. Similarly, you can use one half of your present objective, but such a course would necessitate the addition of a conical ex tension-piece to your camera. 2. Theoretically, the last-named lens is better; but we should prefer a portrait lens, as it gives more light during the work of focussing. As you say, extreme length of focus is of no disadvantage provided the lens is a good one, but should a trace of smoke or other turbidity of the atmo sphere exist, an undue length of focus is undesirable. At certain times, considerations of this kind may, therefore, force you to use a lens of shorter focus than is desirable. Write again if further information is wanted. Rapidity.—1. The formula is given as a certain and reliable one, but it does not yield an emulsion possessing the highest sensitive ness. The formula of Mr. Henderson, which is to be found on p. 65 of the Year-Book, will give you a much more rapid pre paration. 2. Undue heating. 3. We think not, as hydrochromic acid is immediately liberated. 4. The latter is at least as suitable as tho former; but some samples we have met with have proved rather alkaline, and we found it necessary to increase the dose of acid. 5. We know of none. Derventio.—Lay the print face upwards on a level hard surface, such as a sheet of plate glass, and stretch the face by friction with some hard body—a paper-knife, for example. R. Taylor.—The process in question will not give an emulsion of the most extreme rapidity, and you will probably waste time if you attempt to doctor it now. Start afresh with a new bitch. See answer to Rapidity. A. Y. Z.—Prepare it by the formula given onp. 193 of the Year- Book. Bromide.—According to the last accounts we had, things are a little dull just now, and we would not advise you to go unless you have a definite engagement. J. Foster.—Received. In our next. Thanks. Dry Plate.—1. Thanks for the photograph. One can quite understand the view taken by your lady friends. 2. We imagine not, as it came into our bands some three days after date. 3. Strange to say, we have not one. H. and R. S.—We can only conjecture, unless we receive samples of the paper at each stage, but are inclined to think it arises either from atmospheric impurities in the room where the paper is dried, or from some kind of scum on the sensitizing bath. It seems to us that your sensitising bath is somewhat over strong for the paper used ; and, if this is the case, you should reduce the bath, or use a more highly-salted paper. Curiously enough, the defect is scarcely visible by gas-light. Write again, and let us know the result of your trials. Tourist.—We imagine you will alter your opinion before you have had a week’s experience with it. One little thing wrong, and all possibility of work is over. Engraver.—1. In such sunlight as we may get at this time of the year, an exposure of perhaps fifteen minutes might be required; but we have found four minutes ample in the summer. 2. It should not exceed one five-hundredth of an inch. 3. It 1 impossible to judge without seeing both plates. 4. Not at present. *** Authors may have Reprints of their Articles at 3s. per pago per hundred copies ; but the order must be given when the prooi is returned.
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