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576 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. r (August 14, 1891. Hotes. However convenient the electric light may be for general domestic use, and valuable as many know it to be in the photographic studio and experimental laboratory, it has serious disadvantages when employed for light houses. During certain conditions of hazy atmosphere the electric light is not half so efficient as the gas and oil lamps which it has to a certain extent superseded, and in clear weather its light is so blinding as to be positively misleading to those for whose protection it is designed. Murmurs to this effect have long been heard, and at last the Shipmasters’ Society has made complaints direct to the Trinity House authorities. They say that the glare of the light—that at the South Foreland is specially indicated—casts intense shadows, and produces a phantom like appearance of hulls, masts, and sails, and it is suggested that its brilliance should be tempered by the use of coloured glasses. Another suggestion is that instead of the direct ray for the guidance of mariners, the beam of light should be cast upwards towards the clouds, making a veritable “pillar of fire,” by which ships could easily be guided on their way. Lieut. Wells has recently been trying the effect of this method of projection at the Royal Naval Exhibition. The hand-camera seems to be ousting to a great extent the ordinary quarter-plate from the market, and, while we regret that this should be the case, we cannot help seeing that for a time, at least, a rush in favour of the newer contrivance was inevitable. Many persons take up photography because it happens to be just now a fashionable craze, and, as the hand-camera seems to be the easiest form of the art, they purchase that description of apparatus in preference to that which apparently requires a little brain-work before its intricacies can be mastered. The better class of photographers—by which we mean those who pursue the art for the love of it— whether amateur or professional workers, know full well the far greater value of the old-fashioned camera, reserving the hand apparatus for special work. In the meantime, the hand-camera mania is such a real boon to the plate-makers that they ought to erect a statue to those who originated the idea. More especially are they beholden to the devisers of those hand-cameras with rapid-changing contrivances, for it is the bearers of these things who use up—and we may truthfully say spoil—the greatest number of plates. When a man has to change his double back, and go through all the various motions necessary to taking a photograph with an ordinary camera, and when, moreover, he has the means of only carrying with him six plates, he treasures them up and takes care not to throw them away too liberally. Often he will, after focussing a view, decide that after all it is not worth spending a plate upon. Not so the gentleman who fingers his hand-camera. He presses the button—too often leaving others to “ do the rest ”—and hopes that each time he does so a picture is born to him. The temptation of firing away until all the ammunition is exhausted is a characteristic of inexperienced photographers, as it is of youthful soldiers. A very cheap and efficient form of flash-lamp is described in a letter from Dr. Powell to The Beacon. To make it, one must procure a common flower-pot saucer, and perforate it with a hole at one side large enough to accommodate the stem of a “churchwarden” tobacco- pipe. The pipe is inserted into this hole from the inside of the saucer, and its bowl is cemented with plaster-of- Paris to the centre of the receptacle. A piece of cotton wick, or asbestos fibre, is wound loosely around the bowl of the pipe, soaked in methylated spirit, and ignited. In the meantime the pipe has been charged with magnesium powder, and a length of india-rubber tube with a bulb at the end attached to its stem. Pressure on the bulb sends a puff of magnesium through the flame, and an intense flash results. The tobacco-pipe has before been utilised for flash-light purposes, but not so perfectly as in this case. The chairman of the meeting of the shareholders in the Automatic Photograph Company, which was held a few days ago, had a very doleful tale to tell. We do not allude to the financial condition of the Company so much as to the working of the machine itself. It is useless now to disguise the fact that, as at present constructed, the apparatus will not work automatically. Each machine requires the services of an attendant, who, of course, must be paid, thus adding considerably to the expenses ; but, even with the assistance of an official, the results were extremely unsatisfactory. As to the cause of this, we can say nothing, as one of the peculiarities of the pros pectus was that the opinions of experts were carefully excluded. We may, however, mention that the chairman stated that there were at the present time no less than 150,000 bad plaques at the Company's office, so that the fault may not be altogether the machine’s. Despite the miserable outlook, some of the shareholders think there is “ something ” in the apparatus, and are averse from winding up the Company. A committee has been appointed, and perhaps they may discover what the “ secret process,” of which so much has been made, is worth. Admiral Gervais, who will shortly be the lion of Ports mouth, is giving a great deal of trouble just now. He has never faced a camera, nor has he ever allowed his features to be transferred to canvas. No doubt the difficulty will be overcome by our journalistic artists when they get a chance of sketching him; but this will not satisfy his admiring countrymen. In Paris enthusiasm always breaks out in shoals of the photographs of the idol of the hour being exhibited in the shop windows, and to find these barren of the portraits of the hero of Cronstadt and Portsmouth is a great privation. There is an engaging simplicity about the following record in the official organ of the Manchester Amateur Photographic Society:—“The dark room has received some attention in the way of furnishing and completing since our last reference to it. A number of respectable looking bent-wood chairs have been purchased, which help to give the room a more comfortable appearance.” Photographers might take a hint from this. Why should one always stand in order to develop a plate ? Providing the sink be of the right height, developing—especially in the case of dry plates—can be performed just as well by the operator sitting, while there is no doubt about the comfort. We have seen photographers fairly worn out after a long day’s work, simply from the fact that they have never once sat down. Yet, as a sixth or so of the time was passed in the dark room, this proportion of rest might easily have been obtained.
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