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PHOTOGRAPHY IN GERMANY. BY DR. H. w. VOGEL. Stripping the Negative with Fluoric Acid—EGGEN- weiler’s Gallery—RUGET's New Zircon Light— Schirm’s New Flash-Lamp. Stripping the Negative u-ilh Fluoric Acid.—It is now an easy matter to strip and reverse gelatine negatives. The process is old and used by only a few. Fluoric acid is used ; this is kept in gutta-percha bottles. Glass and the hands have to be protected. The acid should be measured in a silver thimble with a wooden handle, and must be diluted with a hundred times its volume of water. As phaltum dishes should alone be used. The acid is harmless in a diluted condition. In this diluted acid the gelatine negative is placed, and after about two minutes it will strip completely from the glass; the film may then be placed in water. Here it stretches about one-third of its length and width, so that a picture 62 by 10 3 will appear in place of the 5 by 8. A larger size is thus obtained, to the advantage of the photographer. The film is left under water until the desired extension has been reached, and the skin is caught again under water upon a glass, and left to drain in a horizontal position. The facility and rapidity with which the work proceeds are generally astonishing. If carbon prints or collotypes are desired they are re versed. Eggentceiler's Gallery.—For the last two years the gal lery construction of Eggenweiler has been recommended, and I believe that it is of particular interest for America, with its brighter sunlights and less dark days. The most peculiar feature of the gallery is that it has no skylight. It is a high room situated on the north side, with a north ern glass side twenty feet high, but without glass roof. The roof, which admits no light, does not incline towards the front, but falls pretty sharply towards the rear, and is painted with a light colour on the inside. At a certain height, about ten feet from the floor, a semi-transparent white covering of gauze has been spread horizontally. This receives a strong light from the extensive glass side and the reflecting roof, and serves as a substitute for the top light. I, for my part, do not consider this screen necessary. The Court photographer, Mr. Kuntze, deems it worthy of our consideration. It cannot suffer from rain or snow, and has the advantage of excluding the sunlight completely, besides being much cheaper than an ordinary studio. Ruget's New Zircon Light.—Mr. Richard Huge), as re presentative of Setten and Company, exhibits a new incandescent gas lamp of the latest construction after Dr. Auer’s system, for enlargement. The principle of the same is based upon the essential heating power of the gas brought to combustion in a Bunsen burner by appli cation of the lighter hydrocarbons (petroleum gas) and repeated suction of air containing oxygen, so that the illuminating power of the glowing zircon body hanging in the flame is thus considerably increased. The apparatus necessary for this consists of a tin dish with two project ing short pipes, to which is attached some rubber tubing. Through one of these tubes air is introduced into the dish pneumatically by pressing the rubber bulb, while the air, impregnated with petroleum gases, passes from the other tube and reaches the Bunsen burner. The illuminating power of the Auer burner is thus brought to a strength of from sixty to eighty candles. The price of this light, including the gradual consumption of the zircon body, is big hats, and one wonders how they managed to keep them “fixed” at such a high angle, especially in windy weather. As we enter Room II., we find it is now the turn for the gentlemen to take the big hat. This room, as usual, is a Dutchman’s gallery, containing many fine and seldom seen examples. On no account must the visitor fail to notice several magnificent portaits by Frans Hals, Nos. 69, 71, 72, 73 ; two typical river pieces (Nos. 49 and 54) by Jan van Goyen; two interiors (Nos. 53 and 78) by David Teniers ; a very characteristic waterfall (No. 58) by Jacob van Ruysdael; an equally typical Hobbema landscape (No. 60) ; two regular Cuyp cattle pieces (Nos. 81 and 87); and No. 76, a Wouverman without his white horse trade mark. In Rooms III. and IV. there are also many fine and typical works, which are for the first time put before the public. From among the many, one may mention a few which certainly should be seen, viz., No. 99, Palma Vecchio; No. 106,Spagnoletto; No. 107,Canaletto; No. 108, Claude ; Nos. 112, 113,116, Velasquez ; No. 114, Murillo ; No. 118, Tintoretto; No. 121, Hals; Nos. 123, 125, Van Dyck ; No. 130, Romney ; No. 146, Pinturicchio ; &c., &c. The early examples are of great interest to the historic student of art, and also to the archologist ; but, quite apart from either of these two particular ways of ex amining this year’s gathering, all genuine and earnest students of painting will find themselves well repaid by a quiet and thoughtful examination of the works now brought together in Burlington House. Io photographers, the water-colour drawings should be of special interest, as they are, for the most part, typical of English painters at a time just before the advent of camera work. THE Photographic Club—The subject for discussion on January 14th will be “Dark-Room illuminants January 21st, “American Slides.” The Proposed Photographic Institute.—At a recent meeting of the Photographic Society, Mr. W. S. Bird said that they would all have read the report of the committee which had been deputed to consider the subject of the proposed Photographic Institute. Their labours had resulted in the drawing up of a large scheme and of a smaller scheme. The larger scheme was a project of the future, but the smaller one was of a more practicable nature, and the committee had had the advantage of conferring with the Lord Mayor on the sub ject, who thought that it might be possible to collect a sum which had for its limit £10,000, provided that the project was shown to be of public utility. If this was so, he thought that the photographic community generally should take some steps towards defining practical methods of carrying the scheme forward, and then they could approach the Lord Mayor with this project, and with some promises of financial support. In foreign countries the Government provided the means by which such institutions were founded, and in Berlin it took a very practical character, but in England this was not the case ; he (Mr. Bird) felt that if this movement was to be a success, it must begin at home, and the Photographic Society ought to use what influence it possesses to assist in the work. Mr. W. Bedford thought that substantial assistance might be derived from the city companies if they thought the scheme would be likely to redound to their credit. The city companies were looking for praiseworthy objects on which to expend their funds, and photography was certainly a science and an art which might justly claim a portion of the wealth which had been accumulated. He did not think that very much assistance was to be expected from the various photographic societies, but at least they could do good by bringing the matter before the notice of their members.
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