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March 22, 1883.J THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS 191 in a panel on the ceiling. The camera was supported on two trays made by an Arab watchman in the temple, and was pointed, of course, straight up at the ceiling, to focus which I had to lie flat on my back on the stone floor. Another, was a piece of sculpture in the roof chamber, representing the resurrection of Osiris. This we illuminated with magnesium and gave two minutes’ exposure. Working rapidly, both 8 by 10 and stereo., we made thirty-five exposures from 7.30 until 10.15 A.M., only one of which was a failure. Keneh, a small town opposite Denderah, is the manufacturing place for an immense number of water jars and filters ; it is close to the shore, not more than ten minutes’ donkey ride, where a number of interesting bits were picked up, the special one being characteristic—a potter at his wheel making small water-jugs. His work-room was small, low, and yellow, and only a rapid dry plate could have success fully made this picture. Our next stopping-place was Luxor, where we moored for three days. First day spent in the Valley of Tombs, known as Bab el Malouk, where the life of the ancient Egyptians is represented in relief on the walls of the tombs reaching hundreds of feet into the mountain. A few sections only could be properly illuminated with magnesium and exposures made on them, some of which had never been photographed before. In the tomb of Sethi I., father of the great Barneses, known as Belzonis’ tomb, by whom it was discovered fifty years ago, we made our first exposure, four hundred and seventy feet down into the mountain, where no ray of light could find its way. On the walls of the deepest room were a number of partly- finished sculptures and others as first traced with a red colour by the draughtsman. We next entered Bruce’s, or the « Harper's," tomb; the latter name was derived from the famous picture in one of the chambers of men playing the harp ; this chamber is one of a series cut in the sides along the entrance ; its principal pictures on the walls represent two harpists playing on instruments of elegant form before the god Moru or Hercules; one, if not both, of the minstrels is blind. To make a negative of one of these harpers was the most difficult crowded attempt we had yet come to, as the chamber was not more than six feet square by foui and a-half feet high, and needed the magnesium to light it, and a rapid plate lens and large stop to catch it; but an exposure of five minutes secured us a fine result. It was necessary to fold up the tripod legs and carefully prop and adjust it, after which I found I could scarcely squeeze my head behind the ground glass to focus. After noon we started for the Rameseum, which we reached after a hard climb over the chalky cliffs, taking in the temples of Hatasu or Deir el Bahari cn route, neither of which call for any special photographic mention. They are, of course, stupendous piles, and make fine pictures. The second day we started again across the Nile, going direct to the Colossi; getting the faces well lighted. We found that in order to take in both figures, and give them the least amount of distortion, it was necessary to resort to the single-front lenses of Morrison, getting further away from the objects, and making the farthest one appear as large as the near one. With the full combination, the farther one was dwarfed. We made them singly, then together, looking north, then south, and finally rear, which really gives the best idea of their immense height— sixty-six feet. Medinet Abou was next visited, and a number of pleasant hours spent in exploring and photographing the beauti ful sculptures on the walls of the palace of Ramese III. A better opportunity was afforded here than at many other places for making pictures of the paintings on the walls. While working here, we received a message from Burgsch Bey to follow the guide, and come to the place where the royal find took place in 1881. So packing up hastily, we mounted our donkeys, and soon arrived at the spot, where we found twenty or more Arabs, with a long rope in hand. On approaching the hole, we heard Mr. Brugsch calling us to first send down our instruments, then ourselves. After descending, by means of a rope placed around the body, to a depth of sixty feet, we crawled into the tunnel where the mummies of thirty-five kings, queens, and princes were hidden. Mr. Brugsch informed us that he wanted us to make two negatives of the two hieratic insciiptions painted with black colour, one on each side of the tunnel close to the shaft. The camera was unscrewed and propped up with stones, rapid lenses put on, and with difficulty focussed ; a silk handkerchief (white) was thrown on the floor to serve as a reflector to get more light, and an exposure of two minutes given, after which we inspected the tunnel to the end, three hundred and sixty- live feet, and were hauled up by the Arabs. These inscriptions were made by the. priests who hid the mummies, and could not be removed owing to the cracked condition of the stone, so photography came in as a helper, and secured exact copies. Our third day was spent at Karnak, the great temple of Amon-Ra, which was two-thousand years building, and covered thirteen acres of ground. We were on hand for work at seven o’clock, and worked hard and steady until four o’clock, during which time we had made sixty exposures. Probably the camera never had richer food presented to it than at Karnak—every turn presented a magnificent ruin ; columns, obelisks, hieroglyphics, &c., mixed up in grand profusion. The hall of columns, with its sixty-foot pillars of stone closely crowded together, taxed the swing back and sliding front to the utmost. The weather was fine, but very hot. {To be continued.} Uorrespondemce. REDUCING OVER-EXPOSED SILVER PRINT. Sin,—In your issue of the 2nd instant I described some methods for reducing over-exposed silver prints. After relating my experience with a plain cyanide bath, J re marked that “ fairly uniform results were obtained by add ing the cyanide to the fixing bath ; but for my own part I prefer to work as little as possible with this poisonous salt.” In last week’s News Mr. R. Stanley Freeman writes :— “The subject of reducing over-printed silverprints hav ing again cropped up, will you permit me to describe a process 1 have lately used with unqualified success ? After removing from the hypo bath such prints as have been rightly printed, I lift the remainder up, and add to the fixing solution a small quantity of tincture of iodine and a solution of cyanide of potassium; then again immerse the prints.” From the above extracts it is evident that the only- difference between the method adopted by Mr. Freeman and that previously published by myself is, that the former adds a solution of iodine to his hypo bath. Now, is there any advantage in making this addition? 1 should say, certainly not; for when iodine is added to a solution of sodium hyposulphite, tetrathionate and iodide of sodium are formed according to the following:— 2Na,S,0, + 21 = Na,S,06 + 2NaI. I need hardly point out that the two latter salts have no action on the silver image. In conclusion, I reiterate that, “ for my own part, I prefer to work as little as possible with this poisonous salt,” cyanide of potassium. Arnold Spiller. Proceedings ok Societies. NEWCASTLE-OX-TYXE PHOTOGRAPIIO Association. The ordinary monthly meeting of the above Association was held in the College of Physical Science, on Tuesday evening last, the 13 th instant, Colonel SHEPPER, the President, in the chair. Previous to the commencement of the business, The Chairman made a few remarks, in the course of which he thanked the members for his election. The minutes of the last ordinary meeting having been read and confirmed, Mr. Gibson was nominated for membership. Messrs. J. Garland, E. Schumann, and R. Snowdon were duly admitted members of the Association. Mr. Thomas M. Laws then read a paper on “ Photo-litho graphy ” (see page 188), and gave a demonstration. Mr. Laws’ remarks and operations were followed with much interest, and at their conclusion a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to him. The meeting then became of a conversational character, and several questions were discussed. Some excellent photographs were shown by Mr. Galloway, and others were presented to the Association by Mr. Robinson and Mr. Auty ; the latter gentleman also sho wed and described a Shew’s instantaneous shutter, and one by Messrs. Harvey, Reynolds, and Co., attracted considerable attention. Mr. Gould exhibited a very fine stereoscope, with rackwork for focussing. Votes of thanks to the donors of photographs, exhibitors of apparatus, &c., and to the Chairman, concluded the meeting.
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