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November 9, 1883.] THE PHOTOGRAPHiC NEWS 709 60 cannot pass an opinion upon. Continued from page 700. employed the gelatino-chloride process in making his slides, which are for this teason day by closing the outside shutters, pinning up a large thick shawl over the window with carpet pins, and stuffing brown paper, socks, comforter, towels, or anything handy, into the somewhat widely gaping cracks round the doors. This is generally such a troublesome job that I seldom develop during the day ; but it requires much self-denial to leave a genial party after dinner to immure oneself in one’s bedroom, when everybody turns out to drink their coffee and smoke and chat outside the hotel in the brilliant starlight, and discuss plans with their guides, especially if those plans involve, as they generally do in fine weather, breakfasting at 1.30 or 2 a m. next morning. In bad weather, however, it is an easier matter, and there is no question that it is much more convenient to develop at night. I clear the bedroom table, and set it against the wall under neath a peg or nail, on which I hang the jug (such a little one!) full of water, and put a syphon in the jug ; then on the table I spread a piece of waterproof sheeting, and set out the basin and three papier-machd dishes and three square six-ounce bottles, containing respectively ten per cent, solutions of pyro, (the Platinotype Company’s sulpho-pyrogallol solution), ammonia, and potassium bromide. The bottles are fitted with dropping tubes, the upper ends of which are closed with india-rubber teats, the little holes in the teats being stopped up by a touch of india-rubber solution. The alum and hypo I carry in tins, and make solutions in empty wine bottles as required. I use Shew’s folding lantern and a little oil lamp with a screw cap for travelling. This is a great convenience, and far better than any candle or nightlight. I strongly recommend a good large lantern, as it keeps cool and does not smoke. I have a row of four little lanterns of vari- orideprocess in making his slides, doubly interesting. “ Brighton on a Bank Holiday,” a box of photographs by F. &. O. Stuart, we were unable to find at the time of our visit, and AMONG THE MOUNTAINS WITH A CAMERA. BY PROIKSSOR w. F. DONKIN, M.A., F.O.S.* I HE next three days the weather was rather uncertain, and I to u he opportunity of developing the plates I had exposed. My bedroom could be converted into a dark room during the ous patterns on a shelf somewhere, all discarded. In mixing my developer I follow no particular formula, but I generally start with about half the full dose of ammonia, and put the rest in by degrees after about three minutes, the whole development taking generally six or seven minutes. The plates go into the alum and hypo successively, rinsing them slowly with about half-a-pint of water before each, and after the hypo into a zinc washing-box. The boxes sold for this purpose are bulky and heavy, so I got a plain, zinc box made, about 8 by 6 by 2 inches, and stick into it some strips of wide gutta-percha grooving. It will thus hold sixteen plates, back to back, in this small space, and, putting the box under a tap or in a stream for a few hours, the plates get thoroughly washed. Mishaps will happen sometimes in all the stages of one’s work , but the penalty one pays in the loss of a good picture is a great safeguard against carelessness of the same kind happening again. This year, in fact, I have no follies to record—such as exposing a plate twice on different views, as I once did on the top of the Schreckhorn, or leaving the cap off the lens when drawing the shutter. As regards the former mistake, I have adopted the simple "dodge" of having two buttons to each shutter; after exposure only one of these is turned, and one sees at a glance which plate has been exposed. Much has been said against changing-boxes, chiefly on the ground of their delicate construction and the liability of the plates to stick in the grooves. Now, I have used one of Hare’s changing-boxes for the last four seasons, and I always take it in preference to double slides when out on a big expedition. It will bear more knocking about and is lighter in proportion to the plates carried. It is true the plates may stick. Once on the top of the Dom (the highest mountain in Switzerland), after I had exposed two plates, the third stuck halfway, and no amount of shaking would induce it to go into the slide. The wind was bitterly cold, the guides were in a hurry to start down again, and two splendid views were waiting to be taken. I hammered the bottom of the box with my ice-axe till I thought every plate would be smashed—and the dents in the wood are a witness to this day of the rough treatment it got—and at length, to my great relief, the too-corpulent No. 3 fell back again and the Iide was released. That was three years ago, and since then he same thing has never happened, except once or twice in the da k room ; for I now invariably fill the box through the slide^ and am always certain, therefore, that the plates, if they go in at all, will pass readily. The other end of the box has not been opened for months—in fact, I have lost the key. I After a delightful fortnight spent at Montanvert, during which period records accumulated in my note-book of four mountains climbed and over thirty negatives taken, I went, with my brother and a friend and two guides, to Saas-Fee, going across country by way of the Col de Chardonnet to Martigny, pictures of the Lanark Fox-hounds (582, 583), and Mr. < G. E. Alder sends a study called “The Artist and his 1 Daughter,” which we cannot quite understand, except 1 that it looks rather uncanny. Of Mr. M. Auty’s little studies (585), we prefer that of ' a stormy sea, in which there is a most characteristic wild ness. Miss E. M. Cotesworth sends “ On Lake Como,” , and Mr. J. C. Stennivg forwards, among others, a group , of little people in a woodland scene (597) that makes a pleasant picture. Of Mr. R. Keene’s exhibits, the most , taking is a “FirTree at Alton Towers” (84), its elegant stem and soft-spreading branches being a picture in itself. Guest House (598) is also an agreeable composition ; but we do not care for “Playing Nap” (600). Mr. David Green sends “sea-views” (597a), of which the top one, with its fretful waves and breaking foam, is the most successful. Mr. Cecil V. Shadbolt’s balloon photo graphs we have already spoken of; he sends also a frame of Swiss studies (603), of which Grindelwald, with its massive glacier, and Thun as seen from the lake, are two of the finest, though all of them indicate true aitistic feeling and intimate technical knowledge. Mr. W. J. Hollebone sends two frames, one of Cumberland and the other o! Scotch views (605, 606) ; several of the little sketches are pleasing, but they would be the better for a little more brightness and vigour. Mr. A. H. S. Bailey contributes half-a-dozen prints (608-613), of which “ Wilberforce’s Seat at Holwood ” is one of the most creditable. The Old Park, Dover (614), of Mr. R. Murray Lawes, the silver-grey mansion seen beyond a foreground of foliage and shrub is artistically treated, and makes a good picture; in “ The Portrait of a Fisherman,” Mr. Lawes has scarcely been so happy. Mr. James Malins’ pictures (617) suffer for the most part from under-exposure, being too dark at the edges ; the flock of geese that is labelled “ Our Christmas Friends” is the most favourable of the sketches. Mr. H. Aubrey shows a picture of a “ Centre Cycle for photographers ” (620) which is probably less complicated than it seems, together with half-a-dozen studies. M. Chapiro, of St. Petersburg, exhibits a most interesting series of twenty-nine cabinet pictures, entitled “ The Memories of a Maniac” (659)—a wonderful representa tion. They are studies for which the great Russian actor Andreyev Bourlack has posed, and may be regarded as a triumph from an artistic as well as pyschological point ol view. The finish and delicacy of the photograph speak greatly in praise of M. Ghapiro, whose skill is more power fully shown still in the large direct portraits of the late M. Turgenieff, the Russian novelist of woild-wide renown, and of the historical painter, Professor Koeller. Mr. Matthew H. Chubb exhibits on the table some studies on opal, of which Harmony (650) and Rebecea (649) are the best. Mr. Newall shows the portrait of a live parrot (105) ; and Mr. Kay contributes a frame of portraits (458) which includes some very creditable work. There are several excellent examples of lantern trans parencies on the table ; those of Mr. Fincham have secured much admiration, their fineness and delicacy being wonder ful. Messrs. England Brothers also distinguish themselves in this branch of photography, as do the Sciopticon Company and Mr. Alexander Cowan. The latter has
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