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    The Mentor: Photography
    The Mentor: Photography
    The Mentor: Photography
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    The Mentor: Photography

    By Paul L. Anderson

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    Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (born 1789, died 1851), was a great French scene-painter who experimented for many years trying to find some way of rendering permanent the image projected by a lens. J. Nicéphore Niépce was engaged in the same research, and from 1829 until the death of Niépce in 1833 the two worked together, but it was not until some years after the latter date that Daguerre discovered the process that bears his name. This process may be briefly described as follows: a highly polished and perfectly clean silver plate is rendered sensitive to light by the formation of a deposit of silver iodide on the surface, this being accomplished by exposing the plate—of course in the dark—for some minutes to the vapor of iodine. When the plate has assumed a uniform golden-brown color it is placed in the camera and the exposure is made, the light projected by the lens causing a chemical change to take place in the silver iodide. The image thus obtained is very weak, and in order to strengthen it the plate is exposed for some minutes to the vapor of mercury. It is subsequently fixed, or rendered permanent, by bathing with a solution of sodium thiosulphate (ordinarily known to photographers as "hypo"). This dissolves the silver compounds that were not affected by light. In some cases the picture is still further strengthened by treating it with chloride of gold. This not only increases the vigor of the image but at the same time improves its stability, so that it is less likely to fade as the result of atmospheric action or exposure to light. The effect of the chloride of gold is literally to gold-plate the image. As the surface of the completed daguerreotype is very sensitive to any mechanical action, it must be protected by glass. A mere touch of the finger leaves an irremediable scratch.

    The daguerreotype was at one time very popular for portraiture, but the process has certain drawbacks that have caused it to be superseded by improved methods.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisheranboco
    Release dateAug 30, 2016
    ISBN9783736412668
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      The Mentor - Paul L. Anderson

      READING

      THE MENTOR

      Photography

      By

      PAUL L. ANDERSON

      A Voice From Far Cathay

      Dear Mentor:—One of my most respected college professors advised his classes to review their several groups of studies every seven years, and in the broad, I agree with the advice. It is just this review that The Mentor gives some of us. The Mentor is not learned. It furnishes a most readable review, with pithy editorials and discriminatively selected pictures. It can be appreciated by the man who has never been outside the town of his birth, and it can be enjoyed by the person who has converted stamped gold into the legal tender which lets one into the city, or gallery, or park, or museum, or observatory described; and it can be read with profit by the one who is interpreting life in the class room.

      I usually read it by bits between courses at the dinner table, and it often has taken the place of another seat. It has this advantage: it never talks shop, save in an entertaining way.

      The pictures make good material for identification or information tests. A selection of twenty makes good material for one stunt of an evening for a small group of guests.

      But I like them best for use in a bulletin board in my class room. With titles or brief notes translated into Chinese, they attract the students around the board between classes. It is an easy matter to have a series of fifteen or twenty groups through the year, that are of interest to one’s students, and give real information and stimulus.

      This letter is not designed to lead you to believe that the publication takes its place with the essential possessions of the American missionary in the Orient—the Bible, Montgomery Ward catalog, and tennis racquet—but it is written that you may know that it helps one to keep fit.

      In appreciation, yours,

      Daniel S. Dye

      West China Union University

      Chengtu, West China

      BY PAUL L. ANDERSON

      PHOTOGRAPH FROM A DAGUERREOTYPE

      PHOTOGRAPHY

      A Daguerreotype

      ONE

      The daguerreotype was at one time very popular for portraiture, but the process has certain drawbacks that have caused it to be superseded by improved methods. Among these drawbacks are the following: The exposures required are rather long; it is impossible to make duplicates—a separate exposure must be made for each picture; the picture must be held at a certain angle to make it visible, and the process

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