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For simplicity and convenience, he recommends the use of a dry process, and shows how a suitable stereoscopic equipment, with a stock of dry plates, may be added to the tourist’s luggage, without, to any extent worth naming, increasing his travelling impedimenta. The article is an interesting one, well calculated to aug ment the usefulness, by increasing the practice, of our art, and we thank Professor Pole for it. In the course of the article, however, the worthy professor makes some remarks which arc, wc think, scarcely fair, either to his readers or die photographic trade. After pointing out to the tourist that he may, if he choose, become a photographer, with- ont cither preparing plates or developing them, by pur chasing sensitive dry plates, exposing them, en route, accord ing to instructions, and then getting them developed by a competent person on his return, he asks how it is, since the advantages of such a plan are undeniable, that it is not more frequently used ? And, he answers, that is simply because " dealers in photographic apparatus have never yet had the enterprize to establish a manufacture and sale of dty prepared plates, in such a way as to insure their popularity;" and, he adds, that this is not from any im perfection or difficulty in dry processes, that “ dry plates can be made, satisfying all the conditions named,” and "might be rendered thoroughly trustworthy.” The con- ditions referred to are, as we glean from preceding remarks, these: That they shall keep “ long enough ” .before and after eposure. That they shall not “ fail in sensitiveness.” That they shall not “spoil soon after they are opened.” 1 That they shall be free from “ liability to stains, irregu- irities, blisters, and all sorts of troublesome and annoying “ects." That these conditions arc not fulfilled is attributed chiefly 1 the “ indolence and obstinacy of the trade,” and it is mnted that there is room to doubt, “ whether some dealers t not be obtuse enough even to encourage defects, from tL short-sighted notion of increasing the sale.” Now, „*c*e are very hard words for “ photographic dealers ” and he trade.” They are hard words, anil, we believe, very DDist ones. That photographic rubbish of all kinds may en oonght plentifully enough there is no doubt: demand supply; and the demand for “ cheapness ” has, in ® photographic trade, as in all others, introduced, we ingTet.to say, sadly too much “ cheap and nasty ” material eve the market ; but that this is universally the case, or anytthe rule, we utterly deny ; and we question whether in me trpde more amateur enthusiasm, as well as honest com- dtietaL.enterprise, has been brought to bear upon its pro- steadcthan in the photographic trade. We have always have at Y opposed this rage for miscalled cheapness; we marksondemned.it in every form : we fully endorse the re- but at 0 a contributor in another column on this subject; of ever ssame time we fearlessly aver that good materials bepr Kin both in apparatus and chemicals may always Poymentof‘a Mithp exercise of moderate judgment and the All this is by the way, however. We hasten to the chief object of our comments : Professor Pole assures us that dry I plates can be prepared fulfilling the conditions named. We ; think we are fairly entitled to ask him to describe the pro cess ; this much is, we think, due to his readers. We are fully aware of the value of the various dry collodion pro cesses ; wc have seen, nay, we have produced, good pictures by all or the majority of the known methods ; but we must confess that we do not know any process by which plates can be produced and placed in the hands of in experienced amateurs which shall then fullfil all the major conditions, to say nothing of entire immunity from “ stains, irregularities, blisters, and all sorts of troublesome and annoying defects.” Every one who is familiar with photo graphy knows that even the most skilled operator, with the best understood processes, cannot always avoid some of those defects. Is it to be supposed then, in regard to dry processes, in regard to which so much both of theory and practice is yet to be learned, plates can be prepared and placed in the hands of persons imperfectly informed, or often careless as to the conditions of keeping, exposure, &c., without, at the same time, inevitably meeting with a large percentage of failures ? Perhaps the largest manufactory of dry plates in existence is that of Dr. Hill Norris, at Birmingham. We hear very frequent accounts of the successes obtained with these plates ; and wc hear occasional accounts of failures ; it is quite possible that such failures may be from a variety of causes unavoidable, but we may state a plan which Dr. Norris himself informed us he constantly practised. When complaints arrived of the imperfection of any of the plates sent out, the purchaser was invited to send back a sample of the imperfect plates, so marked that he could identify them again. On such plates it has happened nine times out of ten the purchaser has received back again perfect negatives. This we have ourselves known to be done repeatedly. Professor Pole states that he knows “ no maker who will guarantee the sincerity of his wish to make good plates, by consenting to allow for them if they turn out bad ones.” The simple offer to do such a thing, would, we fear, be ruinous to any dealer; for whilst it may be fairly affirmed that the failure might probably, in eight times out of ten, be due to carelessness, or incapacity in the operator, it is scarcely to be expected that he would in half of these cases be either conscious of it, or admit it. The truth is, that there are two or three primary reasons why the preparation of dry plates has not been practised largely as a commercial enterprize. The processes have been uncertain, the plates have not been largely required, and their manufacture has often been unremunerative and un satisfactory. That some uncertainty as to results must exist where the rationale is imperfectly understood, needs scarcely to be affirmed. That, in an art like photography, where the difficulties to be overcome are amongst its chief charms to a large class of amateurs, the demand for ready prepared should not be large can be well understood. To an Englishman, at least, the prospect of difficulty is generally very seductive. To the knight errant of old, if danger were added to the diffi culty, the temptation was irresistible :— " For if a pass were dangerous known The danger’s self were lure alone.” It is scarcely less so in the present day ; the danger and difficulty form no small item in the giving the zest to an ascent up the most steep Alpine crags, or in riding across
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