THE

COLLODION PROCESS

on

GLASS.

BY FREDERICK SCOTT ARCHER.

Edition, enlarged

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, 105, GREAT RUSSELL STREET, BLOOMSBURY.

1854.

ENTERED AT STATIONERS HALL.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

 

MODERN WARNING

Please read this if you intend to follow any of Archer's methods, or use any of the formulae in his manual.

 

PART I.

 

INTRODUCTION

Preparation of Materials

Gun Cotton

Collodion

Exciting Bath

Developing Solutions

Fixing Liquids

PART II.

 

Manipulation of the Process

and on the Cleaning of Glass Plates

Preparation of the Glass with Collodion

Exciting the Prepared Plate

Exposure in the Camera

Development of the Latent Image

Fixing the Image

PART III.

 

On the Whitening of Collodion Pictures as Positives

and subsequent Blackening for Negatives

Photographic Camera

Description of the Construction of Archer's Registered Folding Camera

Description of the Mode of Working the above

Exposure of Sensitive Paper

On the Varnishing of Collodion Pictures

Suggestions for choosing a Lens

PART IV.

Preparation of Paper for Printing

Ammonia Nitrate Paper

Printing on Iodized Paper

Second Method of Printing on Iodized Paper

Concluding Remarks

 

PART V.

 

Preparation of Photographic Chemicals

 

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