Abstract
ALTHOUGH there are many very excellent handbooks on photography in general, there are few which give so much useful and necessary information regarding the treatment of the photographic plate after the negative has been obtained. Many amateurs consider the negative ready for printing after a few spots have been obliterated and perhaps a small retouch here and there; but a glance at this book gives one the idea that the negative is by no means ready for printing, but may be improved (in the case of beginners probably not) by many of the numerous hints here brought together. The separate chapters of this book are devoted to the manipulations of drying, hardening, clearing and removing stains, different methods of intensification and reduction, softening and increasing contrasts, varnishing, stripping, retouching portrait negatives, handwork on back and front of negative, spotting and blocking out, and many other aids to producing a “perfect” picture, concluding with special hints for applying the above processes to the working of celluloid and stripping films.
George E. Brown
Finishing the Negative.
Edited by Pp. 160. (London: Dawbarn and Ward, Ltd., 1901.)
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Finishing the Negative . Nature 65, 437 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065437b0
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