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Photography in this instance is the subject of its spleen. The article to which we refer is headed “ Fashion,” and contains incidental flings at petticoats and preaching, crino lines and sermons; but the fashion at which it rails in “ good set terms ” is photography. It will amuse our readers if nothing more; here is a sample :— “ Photography, again, is a fashion that perhaps may last longer than all the nuisances it entails might lead one to expect. It certainly brings nuisances with it that may make the most patient man wish the sun had never been put to this horrible purpose. Sitting to a photographer is not quite so bad as going to a dentist, but it is something near it. In the first place, the leading photographers make appointments or grant a sitting as if they were high Government officials giving away clerks’ places to troublesome but deserving people. Then the photographer himself is a trial. Probably he finds his sitters bores, and he would make a much less lucrative thing of it if he allowed the sitter and the sitter’s friends to interfere. Still it is a nuisance for a lady to be carried off from her husband or other male person in charge, and be treated by a smirking fifth-rate artist for half an hour as something between a convict and a baby. In the case, more especially, of young girls, we must add that this system of separate sittings is something much worse than a nuisance, and ought to be resolutely put down. Then the eminent photographer who thinks himself sure of his business is the most audacious of men. There is nothing he will not say to put down criticism and inquiry. A lady went lately to be taken with a little girl. The money was paid, and in about a week or ten days the thing was pronounced to be ready. The lady was all very well, and so was the upper part of the little girl’s figure, but below the petticoat she shaded off into two faint wavy columns like the reflection of trees in water. Bemon- strance was made, and the eminent photographer had the assurance to say that artists had now given up putting in legs. Thon a quiet, unoffending man is sometimes overwhelmed with what seems to him the joke and mockery of the attitude in which, under the eminent photographer’s directions, he is offered to his friends. A gentleman of a solid, humdrum ap pearance, with only that sort of romance about him which women cannot detect, was recently persuaded to sit. He sat, and the eminent photographer did his best. But it was a failure, and two or three more sittings came off in vain. At last the eminent photographer expressed himself much pleased. By the judicious introduction of a background, and a few ob jects being placed so as to break the stiffness, success had been achieved; and this is what the photograph presented. The unfortunate man was standing with his back to the Lago di Garda. He was placed on the top of a grand marble staircase, near a splendid balustrade. In one hand he held a very now borrowed silk umbrella, and he was supported on the other side by a friend’s hat. It is bad enough to be depicted in this way, but the mere being depicted is a very small portion of the whole business. After the photographs are sent home comes the worry for them. There is some sort of pleasure in giving them to very near relatives and very dear friends. We all like to fancy that there are a chosen few who really care to have a likeness of us, although it does represent us bareheaded, and surveying a new hat on the banks of an Italian lake. But the demand for photographs is not limited to relations dP friends. It is scarcely limited to acquaintances. Anyone who has ever seen you, or has seen anybody that has seen you, or knows anyone that says he has seen a person who thought that he had seen you, consi ders himself entitled to ask you for your photograph, and to make you pay eighteen-pence in order to comply with the demand. There is no compliment in it. The claimant does not care about you or your likeness in the least. But he or she has a photograph book, and, as it must be filled, you are in vited to act as padding to that volume, and to fill a vacant space between Prince Max of Hesse Darmstadt and the amiable owner’s third brother, as he appears in the comic costume of a navvie. It is not even grown-up people only who ask in this preposterous way for photographs. Children and babies have got their photograph books, and say that they really must have your likeness. They protest they will not know what to do with their miserable young lives unless you consent to pay the eighteen-pence for them, and figure in their collection. This is terrible. People who are not accustomed to them do not generally much care for infants in arms, but those precious darlings will rise in estimation now'. They may have an awkward habit of bending suddenly in the back, as if they were APRIL 11, 1862.] THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. i very ers, to those d. B liscus- object ubmit more emove ithful, pe. I was .0 has duced An , have o on® 5 ani ich of d yot helio Hart er, hi in it* ■ sob* ervinS placed r, and s thu inch ergin sously letorf tain * ' larg‘ Tb« lie fod ig th is tl‘ .sc, to® repr whic woull issiv Th 1 e ray on 1 ratin’ of in , a; heavpI a, ap‘ bstac. ar tb attb‘ n th 1 ; y, ap° Oft) rough ■ isitioP; 1, ap‘ n(tbi e raj'| ies d t emaiv i risivs ire th 1 ' int THE SATURDAY REVIEW ON PHOTOGRAPHY. The Saturday Review, always severe, often inconsistent, and se om jus , las recently indulged in one of those atrabilious ou urs s oi w nch it has acquired a certain notoriety. dark chamber (if I have it bent), compensating prisms. I throw the image on the focussing-glass of an ordinary camera without a bottom, and I focus. This done, it remains to regulate the focus. By varying the position which it occupies, a greater or less intensity of light may be obtained. When the focus is brought exactly on the object, fe image of the sun is formed at the same time upon the Ecreen or ground-glass. By throwing the focus a little behind, a blue point appears in the centre of the field, which, however, disappears in the enlargement. The adjustment of the lenses should be arrested when this point spreads itself over the whole surface of the image, as this is the light possessing the most actinic power. The remainder of the operation consists in receiving the image on the sensitive glass, in the same way as taking an ordinary portrait or view, the microscope in this instance acting as the object- glass. While I am uncovering the sensitized glass in the camera I intercept the light by means of a yellow-coloured glass, taking great care that the room is well shaded from Mt I then withdraw the yellow glass rapidly, in order that every part of the picture shall be equally exposed. The length of exposure varies with the enlargement employed. I® good sunlight a linear enlargement of twelve hundred times may be obtained in seven or eight seconds at the most. Those of about three hundred times require but the fraction of a second. I, in this case, replace the yellow glass by a shutter, in which the duration of the exposure is regulated by a little wing similar to that which is applied to the striking of a clock. The process which I regard as the most suitable for the Purpose is the wet collodion process. The remainder of the °perations are in every respect similar to the ordinary well- blown methods of operating. In the reproduction of infu- a great difficulty presents itself—namely, their very rapid movements among themselves, the effect of which is increased by the enlargement. However rapid the operation may be, it is still too long to seize the vibratory motion of these cilia. To kill them by poison is not quick enough, Wd deforms some of them. In order to attain the object in view I have recourse to the electric spark or to a galvanic urrent. I attach to the stage the two poles of a Daniell’s battery, or of a small induction coil in such a way that the poles shall be in contact with the drop of water. The circuit is interrupted near the source of the current which I have near my hand. I follow the movements of the infusoria on ‘be glass by means of the yellow glass. When I consider ‘be position favourable, I complete the current by simple Contact, The animalcule is killed as with a thunder-stroke in ‘be place I have chosen. With a little practice this PPration becomes simple and easy. brWhen it is desired to reproduce objects of a yellow or aroyn colour, which colour does not give the actinic rays, I j di myself of a small polarising apparatus, which 1 intro- “lee Under the object at the point of the focus. In this manner I can modify the tint generally, and render it more P totogenic. The application of photography to the reproduction of microscopie observations may be made, I think, to render Ereat service to science, by allowing the possibility of sup plying the public at a low price with engravings of micro- Scopic investigations, these plates having hitherto been Of a very high price. It will be possible also to furnish !mpressions of these plates on copper, engraved by the ingenious process of M. Chas. Ngre. These plates will possess incontestable accuracy, and a delicacy to which the hand of man could never attain, and would be producible at a price which will be much reduced when compared to that of engravings. 177
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