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494 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. LAUGUST 3, 1883. Corresponeute. PHOTOGRAPHY AT ILFRACOMBE. Sir,—There is certainly some novelty in the manner of conducting photographic businesses here in Ilfracombe, and if the system would not work in London and other places, it certainly seems to be a paying institu tion here, for everything of note which takes place is photographed, and, whenever practicable, announced- pre viously from the street corners by the town-criers, of which worthies I counted no less than three within half-a- mile. Here is a specimen of one of the announcements :— “ Visitors are respectfully informed that a photograph will be taken of the visitors on the pier in a group under the Lantern Hill at 10.45 this morning. Copies of this photograph maybe obtained at Mr. John Catford’s studio, 113, High Street, nearly opposite the Royal Clarence Hotel,’’ &c. Further on, another crier was delivering the following oration on the merits of a photograph taken on the previous day by another photographer. “ A false re port having been circulated that the photographs taken by Mr. Batten of the members of the Cardiff Choral Society yesterday afternoon in the Oxford Hall has proved a failure, visitors are respectfully informed that the said report is utterly devoid of truth, and instead of the photo graphs being an utter failure, they were a great success. Copies of the photograph may be obtained at 4, Orchard Terrace,” &c. Besides photographing audiences at entertainments of all kinds, the four-horse coaches which ply between this place and Lyntonjare] photographed, with their load of pleasure-seekers, every morning at 8.30, previous to the start, copies of which may be obtained mounted and finished the same evening, in time for the return of the coaches, at the respective photographers’ shops. It strikes one as being rather curious thatjlong after the grocer and the butcher have closed their shops, the photographers’ windows are gaily illuminated, and the outside at least is besieged with anxious faces eager to get a glimpse of the morning’s productions. In fact, the photographers’ shops are the only places where there is anything to see after nine o’clock in the evening; thus they are demoralising the good people of North Devon, who are accustomed to retire to rest at the above mentioned hour. The photo grapher here is a busy man ; he does not require any rest, neither does he care how much mischief he makes in family circles by being always on the spot with his camera and instantaneous plate, so long as he can maintain the present excitement for photographs and being photographed. I think something concerning this system of photo graphing has been previously mentioned in the News, but I thought one or two of the items might at any rate be repeated. We are having splendid weather here this week, and it seems settled.—Yours faithfully, August 1st. a Reader of the News. AN EXPERIENCE. Dear Sir,—For some time past I have been in the habit of using the crystals of oxalate of potash deposited in the stock bottle after developing platinum prints, both for developing transparencies upon gelatine plates, and gelatine bromide paper, and always with success ; in fact, I always thought that the colour in both cases was better, and the image brighter, than when fresh oxalate was used. But yesterday, when trying to reproduce a negative in the camera upon a gelatine plate, to my astonishment, instead of a negative from the transparency, I got a transparency— that is, a direct reversion of image, and to-day I have in the same developing solution got a negative from a negative, and that negative of the best quality. Now for the cause of this anomaly:— The developer was compounded of oxalate of potash that had been mixed with the Platinotype Company’s special sepia liquid, and after being used for developing platinum prints, was evaporated to dryness, and a saturated solution made from the resulting crystals. This saturated solution was filtered, and three parts were added to one of sat. sol. of sulphate of iron, with result as stated—viz., that instead of getting a negative from a transparency, I got a trans parency; whilst with another plate out of same batch, but using the same sat. sol. of sulphate of iron, with a sat. sol. of fresh oxalate of potash, I got a negative from the same transparency., W. T. Wilkinson. Proceedings of Socketies. London and Provincial Photographic Association. At the meeting held 26th July,. Mr. A. L. Henderson in the chair, Mr. F. W. Hart, referring to a conversation which took place at a recent meeting as to single view lens and the difference between the chemical and visual foci, exhibited a camera and lens made about 1843. On the top of the camera was an ivory tablet showing the difference in the foci of the lens, which was a concavo convex of about ten and a-half inches focus. The Chairman passed round prints from pinhole negatives, taken by Mr. J. Taylor, of Aidgate, and read a paper entitled, “ Does the amount of gelatine affect the rapidity and quality of the negative ?" In the discussion which followed, Mr. Cowan enquired whether a slow emulsion was quickened by the addition of fresh gelatine ? Mr. Henderson said it was, and in reply to another question, as to whether the plates took longer to develop, he replied that they did not. He hoped to be able to prepare emulsion by this method sufficiently rapid for drop-shutter work. Mr. Golding said he found that if he prepared an emulsion with (say) 20 grains silver to the ounce, he could make it up to 8 ounces without imparing the quality of the plate, but the bro mide must be in an extremely fine state of division ; he could prepare a fine batch of emulsion giving about eight times plates with 160 grains to 40 ounces gelatine. Mr. Debenham said that Mr. Warnerke thought an emulsion was not too thin so long as he could not see the shape of a gas flame through the plate when wet. Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association. The ordinary monthly meeting of this Association was held on Thursday, the 26th inst., at the Free Library, William Brown Street, Mr. J. H. T. Ellerbeck in the chair. The minutes of the June meeting having been read and con firmed, Mr. T. Churchland was elected a member of the Associa tion. The Hon. Secretary read the Chairman’s report of the recent excursion to Southport. Mr. Ellerbeck said :—The second excursion of the season was held at Southport, on Saturday, the 21st instant, by invita tion of the president, Mr. B. Boothroyd. The numbers attend ing were few, owing to the inclemency of the weather. It rained at starting, came down heavily on arriving, poured all the way to the Botanic Gardens, Churchtown, and came down in torrents all the time till moving. In spite, however, of this untoward circumstance, all enjoyed the afternoon thoroughly, being under cover; and the ferns and flowers at the gardens came in for a due share of attention. It is to be hoped that good pictures were the result—a consummation more devoutly to be wi-hed than expected. The day closed by an adjournment to the residence of the host, who did his best to compensate for the disappointing weather, and succeeded in doing so so thoroughly that all were delighted with the excursion. Mr. H. Greenwood proposed a hearty vote oi thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Boothroyd, which was carried unanimously. The party arrived in Liverpool about 9’30 p.m., the rain still continuing. One fact is worth recording: the directors of the Southport Botanic Gardens admit all photographers—amateur or otherwise-free, trusting, to the distribution of the results for compensation, as advertisemen for the beauty of the place. This is an example we should be glad to see followed in other districts. Messrs. H. N. Atkins and PAILLIPS exhibited prints from
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