Identifier: americanannualof3334newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: W. C. Kendall

Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ded is enough tocover the films, and by using such a bath until it is worked out,and the replacing with a new stock, the nine quarts will gomuch further than if the whole bath is dumped in a big trayand left to catch dust, developer and warmth until it is ex-hausted. BUT—and please notice the capitals—it is a false economy,and therefore poor conservation, to use too little fixing bathor use that little too long. Films cost more than hypo. Tooverwork the hypo is to ruin the film. A word to the wise— Perhaps nothing in photography is more useful in true con-servation than the keeping of data regarding work done. Tothis end, the autographic back and autographic film work to-gether in no uncertain way. Whether the autographic feat-ure be used merely to identify the film, and in connection witha notebook in which is recorded stop, light, exposure and timeof day, or whether all those details be recorded on the spot byuse of the little window and the stylus, makes little difference. 12
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W. C. KENDALL. JANE REECE. 13 The conservation comes in having readily accessible, certainand positive data that this particular film, which has resultedin such a satisfactory negative was made in just such-and-sucha way. It comes in knowing that the reason that landscapes ofwhich so much was hoped, failed because over-exposed orunder-exposed—a thing easy to remember if one finds plainlywritten on the negative edge the data which tells the tale. In printing, probably no economy results in real conserva-tion so much as that which saves temperature. Of course,you dont want the temperature you save and you cant putit away and use it another time! But the degrees whichcreep, creep up in the developing bath do more damage tovelox than even dirty fingers, and many and many the sheetof paper now wasted which would be saved if a thermometeroccupied a corner of the development tray and someones eyesrested often upon its tell-tale column! In other words, real conservation of photographic mate

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