Notes and Queries, Number 199, August 20, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 199, August 20, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Stereoscopic Angles_ (Vol. viii., pp. 109. 157.).--I perfectly
agree with your correspondent MR. T. L. MERRITT (p. 109.) respecting
"stereoscopic angles," having arrived at the same conclusion some months
since, while at Hastings, where I produced stereoscopic pictures by
moving the camera _only two inches_: having in one, _seven_ houses and
_five_ bathing-machines; and in the other, _five_ houses and _eight_
bathing-machines. If I had separated the two pictures more, I should have
had _all bathing-machines_ in one and _all houses_ in the other; which
convinced me that nothing more is required than the width of the two eyes
for all distances, or, slightly to exaggerate it, to three inches, which
will produce a pleasing and natural effect: for it is quite certain that
our eyes do not become wider apart as we recede from an object, and that
the intention is to give a true representation of nature as seen by one
person. Now, most stereoscopic pictures represent nature as it never
could be seen by any one person, from the same point of view; and I feel
confident that all photographers, who condescend to make stereoscopic
pictures, will arrive at the same conclusion before the end of this
season.
If this be correct, all difficulty is removed; for it is always advisable
to take two pictures of the same prospect, in case one should not be
good: and two very indifferent negatives will combine into one very good
positive, when viewed by the stereoscope: thus proving the old saying,
that two negatives make an affirmative.
HENRY WILKINSON.
Brompton.
_Sisson's Developing Solution._--In answer to S. B.'s inquiry, I beg to
say, that I have not tried the above solution as a bath. I have always
poured it on, believing that it was easier to observe the progress of
the picture by that mode. If S. B. will forward me his address, I shall
be happy to enter more minutely into my mode of operating with it than
I can through the medium of "N. & Q." I have received other favourable
testimony as to the value of my developing fluid for glass positives.
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