Identifier: americanannualof28newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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valuable results, thanthat of photo-micrography, which enables the microscopist tosecure a wealth of detail from the minute forms of life quiteimpossible by any system of sketching through a cameralucida. Vlt should not be forgotten that both camera and cameralucida may be a fruitful source of error, either through absenceof knowledge necessary to avoid it, or the bias of what is calledthe personal equation. For pictorial purposes this individu- 34 ality is of the highest importance, and latitude is rightly givenin the treatment of both negative and print, but to the scientificworker whose aim should be to depict nature simply as it issuch doctoring of a negative is strictly forbidden. Mereprettiness is of no value unless it conveys a truthful renderingof the object photographed, and this dominating element ofaccuracy should be borne in mind by all photo-micrographers.Now, it is a strange fact that there are many medical studentsand amateurs in every grade of society who take up pho-
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ENLARGED POLYCYSTINA. Illustrating Article Microscope and Camera, by Walter Bagshaw, F.R.M.S. tography as a hobby, while at the same time regularly usingthe microscope for serious work who nevertheless have nevertried the camera and microscope in combination. This may arise from lack of thought, though probably atotal misconception of fancied difficulties has had a deterringeffect. Whether from one or both causes the purpose of thepresent article is to call attention to the fascinating simplicityof photographing through the microscope. Independent ofweather, scenery, and sunshine, the photographer may be seatedat a comfortable fireside by gaslight and produce pictures mar- 35 velous and instructive; records of a vast kingdom invisible tothe unassisted eye. A simple experiment will enable theowner of any microscope to use it as a magic lantern forprojecting a magnified picture of his slide on to a piece ofwhite cardboard, and the only difference betwixt enlargementsmade in this manner

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