A Manual of Photographic Chemistry, Including the Practice of the Collodion ProcessHardwich, T. Frederick
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A Manual of Photographic Chemistry, Including the Practice of the Collodion Process
Hardwich, T. Frederick
Photographic chemistry; Photography
Salt the prepared Serum with Chloride of Sodium or Ammonium; in quantity
about eight or ten grains to each fluid ounce, and render sensitive upon
the same Bath as that recommended for the Citrate Process.
A NEGATIVE PRINTING PROCESS UPON IODIDE OF SILVER.
Iodide of Silver is more sensitive to the reception of the invisible image
than the other compounds of that metal; and hence it is usefully employed
in printing _enlarged_ Positives from small Negatives, by means of the
Camera. The great stability of the proofs upon Iodide of Silver will also
be a recommendation of this process when unusual permanency is required.
Take of
Iodide of Potassium 160 grains.
Water 20 fluid ounces.
The best paper to use will be either Turner's Calotype, or Whatman's or
Hollingworth's Negative; the foreign papers do not succeed with the above
formula (p. 258).
Float the paper on the iodizing Bath until it ceases to curl up and lies
flat upon the liquid: then pin up to dry in the usual way.
Render sensitive upon a Bath of Aceto-Nitrate of Silver containing 30
grains of Nitrate of Silver with 30 minims of Glacial Acetic Acid to each
ounce of water.
When the sheet is quite dry, place it in contact with the Negative in a
pressure frame, and expose _to a feeble light_. About 30 seconds will be
an average time upon a dull winter's day, on which it would be impossible
to print at all in the ordinary way. On removing the Negative nothing
whatever is seen upon the paper, the image being strictly invisible in
this process unless the exposure has been carried too far.
Develope by immersion in a saturated solution of Gallic Acid, prepared
in the manner described at page 261. The image appears slowly, and the
process may last from 15 minutes to half an hour. If the exposure has
been correctly timed, the Gallic Acid appears at length almost to cease
acting; but when the proof has been over-exposed, the development goes
on uninterruptedly, and the image becomes too dark, partaking more
of the character of a Negative than a Positive. The usual rule, that
_under_-exposed proofs develope slowly but show no half-tones, and that
the _over_-exposed develope with unusual rapidity, is also observed in the
process with Iodide of Silver.
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