Category: Photography

EVEN while one writes, the tale of achievement in which photography plays its part takes a new if not a surprising departure; for in these days of rapid developments in science nothing greatly surprises. The new thing is quite in the line of research wherein many recent triumphs have been won, and to which much […]

THE discovery of a process by which objects may be photographed in their natural colours has been the aim of innumerable researches, but as yet no direct method has been found. Methods based on the trichromatic process of colour analysis, which have had a considerable measure of success, are not colour photography, properly so-called. Frederick […]

IT would be difficult to name a branch of science—hardly a department of industry—that has not benefited from photography. During the sixty years that have elapsed since the announcement of the joint discovery of Niepce, Daguerre, and Fox-Talbot, light as chemist has not only broadened and deepened our sight, but has revealed to us wonder […]

A NUMBER of processes have been devised for applying photography to the production of blocks or plates, from which impressions may be taken by purely mechanical methods. These processes are of three kinds. They consist of blocks or printing surfaces in which (I) the parts intended to show up in print are sunk, cut, or […]

COMMENTING upon a camera devised by Mr. Friese-Greene for the rapid taking of consecutive photographic views, a photographic journal, in February, 1890, remarked that ” the chief value of the machine, or of a modification thereof, may hereafter be found to be in the direction not contemplated by the inventors—at least they have said nothing […]

IT will be remembered that Niepce’s attention was first turned to the problem of fixing the image of the camera obscura by his experiments in lithographic printing; and his earliest successes in photography were in the reproduction of engravings. In other words, they were experiments in photo-printing. Fox-Talbot went a step still further, and his […]

NOTWITHSTANDING that the collodion process, particularly in its wet state, rendered such important services to photography, it is today almost wholly a thing of the past. The later generation of photographers, indeed, know little or nothing about it, and probably the majority would not know how to use it if they wished. As early as […]

THE history of photography is a curious one. It shows how important discoveries are the outcome, not of one mind, but of the investigations of numberless men, working entirely independently of each other, and to ends altogether diverse. It falls to one man perhaps, by a lucky hit, to put the finishing touch to an […]