Notes and Queries, Number 166, January 1, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 166, January 1, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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I have not myself met that uniform success with any other paper that I have
with Turner's photographic of Chafford Mills: a sheet of this divided into
two portions forms at the same time a useful and also a very easily-managed
size, one adapted for most cameras, forming a picture of nine inches by
seven, which is adequate for nearly every purpose. Each sheet being marked
in its opposite corners with a plain pencil-mark on its smooth side (vide
_antè_, p. 372.), the surface for {21} all future operations is in all
lights easily discerned. In my instructions for printing from collodion
negatives, a form of iodized paper was given, which, although very good, is
not, I think, equal to the following, which is more easily and quickly
prepared, exhibits a saving of the iodide of potassium, and is upon the
whole a neater mode.
Take sixty grains of nitrate of silver and sixty grains of iodide of
potassium; dissolve each separately in an ounce of distilled water; mix
together and stir with a glass rod. The precipitate settling, the fluid is
to be poured away; then add distilled water to the precipitate up to four
ounces, and add to it 650 grains of iodide of potassium, which _should_
re-dissolve the precipitated iodide of silver, and form a perfectly clear
solution; but if not, a little more must be carefully added, for this salt
varies much, and I have found it to require 720 grains to accomplish the
desired object.
The fluid being put into a porcelain or glass dish, the paper should be
laid down upon its surface and immediately removed, and being laid upon a
piece of blotting-paper with the wet surface uppermost, a glass rod then
passed over it to and fro ensures the _total expulsion_ of all particles of
air, which will frequently remain when the mere dipping is resorted to.
When dry, this paper should be soaked in common water for three hours,
changing the water twice or thrice, so as to remove all the soluble salts.
It should then be pinned up to dry, and, when so, kept in a folio for use.
I have in this manner prepared from sixty to eighty sheets in an evening
with the greatest ease. It keeps good for an indefinite time, and, as all
experienced photographers are aware, unless you possess good iodized paper,
which should be of a _primrose_ colour, you cannot meet with success in
your after-operations. Iodized paper becomes sometimes of a bright
brimstone colour when first made; it is then very apt to brown in its use,
but tones down and improves by a little keeping.
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