The subject whose eyes were to be photographed sat in a chair placed
on a rotating platform, in such a position that the vertical axis of
rotation passed through, or just posterior to the nose. Rays from an
arc-lamp of 6 amperes, placed about 60 cm. from the subject's face,
were so converged by a lens that when the subject came to rest, after
the rotation, his two eyes were brightly illuminated. An adiathermal
screen consisting of a dilute solution of copper ammonium sulphate
kept the heat from being painfully intense on the eyes. The light fell
slightly from one side on the subject's face, when he was brought to
rest; and directly in front of him, at a distance of about 40 cm., was
a camera of which the lens was on a level with his eyes. The ordinary
ground-glass screen at the back of this camera was replaced by a
light-proof box, in the front of which, and in the plane which should
have been that of the ground glass, was a slit 55 mm. broad and 5 mm.
high. Inside the box was a Ludwig kymograph of which the drum rotated
on a horizontal axis: the circumference of the drum lay tangentially
to the front of the box, and the line of tangency passed horizontally
through the long axis of the slit. For each photograph a photographic
film of sensitometer 40 was fixed to the drum, as paper is ordinarily
fastened, and in moving, the drum carried this film upwards past the
slit. It follows from this arrangement that 5 mm. along the length of
this film were always exposed at once. The camera was so focused that
the images of both eyes were sent through the slit, and fell on the
film.
[Illustration: Figs. 1 and 2]
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