Mr. England writes as follows to the Photographic Journal, and we can unhesitatingly say that the method of reducing an over-printed proof is excellent.
"A simple and certain method of reducing over-printed proofs has been one of the wants long felt by all photographers. It is well known that in every photographic establishment even the most careful printers cannot always be sure of getting the exact depth of tone required, and proofs occasionally get over-printed. Of course prevention is better than cure; but, when a remedy is necessary, the method I am about to describe answers admirably. I tried a great many experiments before I succeeded to my satisfaction. I found that cyanide of potassium totally destroyed the print, even when used moderately strong. By using a weaker solution it was well under control, and the exact depth could be readily obtained; but during the washing to remove the cyanide the action of the latter continued, and spoiled every proof. I then tried several methods to arrest the action of the cyanide, but without success. It then occurred to me to use the cyanide in such a weak state that but little should be held in the paper, only sufficient to reduce the print to the required depth; for this purpose I made a bath of only four drops of saturated solution of cyanide to a pint of water. The prints immersed at first showed no signs of getting lighter, but after about an hour the most perfect results had been obtained with prints considerably over-printed. With lighter pictures a less time is required. Proofs treated in this way lose nothing of their tone during the after-washing, which should be thoroughly done, and, when dry, retain all the brilliancy of an ordinary print."
The plan of using cyanide has, we know, often been proposed, but with no success until, we believe, Mr. W. Brooks gave a formula which worked successfully with him.
Another plan, proposed by Mr. L. Warnerke, for effecting the same thing is the use of ferric sulphate. A weak solution is prepared, and the print immersed in it. The reduction takes place rapidly, but evenly.
We need scarcely say that it is better not to have to use either of these remedies, by avoiding over-printing; but as mistakes will occur, it is evident that the above will be of use at times.
Utilization of Silver Residues.
All paper or solutions in which there is silver should be saved, as it has been proved by experience that from 50 to 75 per cent. of the whole of the silver used can be recovered by rigid adherence to the careful storage of "wastes."
1. All prints should be trimmed, if practicable, before toning and fixing; in all cases these clippings should be collected. When a good basketful of them is collected, these, together with the bits of blotting-paper attached to the bottom end of sensitized paper during drying, and that used for the draining of plates, should be burnt in a stove, and the ashes collected. These ashes will naturally occupy but a small space in comparison with the paper itself. Care should be taken that the draught from the fire is not strong enough to carry up the ashes.
2. All washings from prints, waters used in the preparation of dry plates, all baths, developing solutions (after use), and old toning baths, should be placed in a tub, and common salt added. This will form silver chloride.
3. The old hyposulphite baths used in printing should be placed in another tub. To this the potassium sulphide of commerce may be added. Silver sulphide is thus formed.
4. To No. 1 nitric acid may be added, and the ashes boiled in it till no more silver is extracted by it. The solution of silver nitrate thus produced is filtered off through white muslin, and put aside for further treatment, when common salt is added to it to form chloride, and added to No. 2.
5. The ashes may still contain silver chloride. This may be dissolved out by adding a solution of sodium hyposulphite, and adding the filtrate No. 3.
6. No. 2, after thoroughly drying, may be reduced to metallic silver in a reducing crucible[30] by addition of two parts of sodium carbonate and a little borax to one of the silver chloride. These should be well mixed together, and placed in the covered crucible in a coke fire, and gradually heated. If the operator be in possession of one of Fletcher's gas furnaces he can employ it economically, and with far less trouble than using the fire. (It is supplied with an arrangement for holding crucibles, which is useful for the purpose.) After a time, on lifting off the cover, it will be found that the silver is reduced to a metallic state. After all seething has finished, the crucible should be heated to a white heat for a quarter of an hour. The molten silver should be turned out into an iron pan (previously rubbed over with plumbago to prevent the molten metal spirting), and immersed in a pail of water. The washing should be repeated till nothing but the pure silver remains.
The silver hyposulphite, having been reduced to the sulphide by the addition of the potassium sulphide, is placed in a crucible, and subjected to a white heat; the sulphur is driven off, and the silver remains behind.
Another method of reducing silver chloride to the metallic state is by placing it in water slightly acidulated with sulphuric acid together with granulated zinc. The zinc is attacked, evolving hydrogen, which, in its turn, reduces the silver chloride to the metallic state, and forming hydrochloric acid. After well washing, the silver may be dissolved up in nitric acid.
Yet another method is to take sugar of milk and a solution of crude potash, when the silver is rapidly reduced. This requires careful washing, and it is well to heat the metal to a dull red heat to get rid of any adherent and insoluble organic matter which may have been formed, before dissolving it in nitric acid.
To Print from Weak and Hard Negatives.
Should a negative be found very hard, a slight modification of the sensitizing solution will be found beneficial, supposing the ordinary paper is to be used.
| Silver nitrate | 30 | grains |
| Water | 1 | ounce |
The negative should in this case be printed in the sun. The more intense the light, the less contrast there will be in the print, as the stronger light more rapidly effects a change in the albuminate than if subjected to weaker diffused light. The reason for the reduction in quantity of the silver nitrate in the solution is given on page 15.
To print from a weak negative, the sensitizing solution should be:—
| Silver nitrate | 80 | grains |
| Water | 1 | ounce |
The printing should take place in the shade; the weaker the negative, the more diffused the light should be. If a negative be dense, but all the gradations of light and shade be perfect, the strong bath, and, if, possible, a strongly-salted paper, should be used. The printing should take place in sunlight.
To Make Gold Tri-Chloride [AU CL3].
Place a half-sovereign (which may contain silver as well as copper) in a convenient vessel; pour on it half a drachm of nitric acid, and mix with it two-and-a-half drachms of hydrochloric acid; digest at a gentle heat, but do not boil, or probably the chlorine will be driven off. At the expiration of a few hours add a similar quantity of the acids. Probably this will be sufficient to dissolve all the gold. If not, add acid the third time; all will have been dissolved by this addition, excepting, perhaps, a trace of silver, which will have been deposited by the excess of hydrochloric acid as silver chloride. If a precipitate should have been formed, filter it out, and wash the filter paper well with distilled water. Take a filtered solution of ferrous sulphate (eight parts water to one of iron) acidulated with a few drops of hydrochloric acid, and add the gold solution to it; the iron will cause the gold alone to deposit as metallic gold, leaving the copper in solution. By adding the gold solution to the iron the precipitate is not so fine as if added vice versa. Let the gold settle, and pour off the liquid; add water, and drain again, and so on till no acid is left, testing the washings by litmus paper. Take the metallic gold which has been precipitated, re-dissolve in the acids as before, evaporate to dryness on a water bath (that is, at a heat not exceeding 212° F.) The resulting substance is the gold tri-chloride. To be kept in crystals this should be placed in glass tubes hermetically sealed. For non-commercial purposes it is convenient to dissolve it in water (one drachm to a grain of gold). Ten grains of gold dissolved yield 15.4 grains of the salt. Hence if ten grains have been dissolved, 15.4 drachms of water must be added to give the above strength.
To Make Silver Nitrate.
Silver coins are mostly alloyed with tin or copper. In both cases the coin should be dissolved in nitric acid diluted with twice its bulk of water. If tin be present there will be an insoluble residue left of stannic oxide. The solution should be evaporated down to dryness, re-dissolved in water, filtered, and again evaporated to dryness. It will then be fit for making up a bath. If copper be present, the solution must be treated with silver oxide.
The silver oxide thus formed is added, little by little, till the blue or greenish colour has entirely disappeared. This will precipitate the copper oxide from the copper nitrate, setting free the nitric acid, which, in its turn, will combine with the silver oxide. The copper will fall as a black powder mixed with any excess of silver oxide there may be. Take one or two drops of the solution in a measure, and add a drachm of water, and then add ammonia to it till the precipitate first formed is re-dissolved. If no blue colour is apparent, the substitution of the silver for the copper is complete; if not, more silver oxide must be added till the desired end is attained. Distilled water must next be added till the strength of the bath is that required. This can be tested by the argentometer.
If to a solution of silver nitrate a solution of potash be added, a precipitate will be formed. This is the silver oxide. The potash should be added till no further precipitation takes place. The oxide should be allowed to settle, the supernatant fluid be decanted off (a syphon arrangement is very convenient), and fresh distilled water added to it. This, in its turn, after the oxide has been well stirred, should be decanted off. The operation should be repeated five or six times, to ensure all nitrate of potash being absent, though its presence does not matter for a printing bath, since this or some other nitrate is formed when the paper is floated.
THE END.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 1881.
In view of the fact that the undersigned has aided in the production of many of the most artistic photographic pictures produced in this country during the last ten years, pictures which have received gold and silver medals at Philadelphia, London, Paris, Amsterdam and other cities of the world, he feels warranted in soliciting the patronage of photographers unacquainted with his works.
Pointing hand My recently introduced Backgrounds comprise those suitable for the stocking of a New Gallery, as well as several suitable for making special Exhibition pictures.
No. —— Vienna Tapestry. No. 439. New Eastlake.
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Lesson A. Treatment of the Subject—B. The Needful Apparatus—C. The Objective or Lens—D. The Dark-Room—E. Preparation of the Glass—F. Chemicals and Solutions—G. The Manipulations—H. Manipulatory Miseries—I. Retouching the Negative—J. The Glass Studio—K. Accessories and Light—L. Managing the Model—M. Printing on Albumen Paper—N. Printing on Plain Paper—O. General Remarks on Printing—P. Printing on Various Surfaces—Q. Printing Perplexities—R. Art in Printing—S. Mounting and Finishing—T. Photography Outside—U. Bromo-Gelatine Emulsion Work—V. Vogel's Collodion Emulsion—W. Enlargements and Lantern Slides—X. Phototypes, Platinotypes, and Collodion Transfers—Y. Wastes and Their Worth—Z. Metrical Measuring—&. Concluding Confab—Index (Six Pages.)
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Hearn's Artistic Printing" $300. "Hearn's Practical Printer" $2 50.
COMPLETE PRICE-LISTS FREE.
SOLE AGENTS IN UNITED STATES
FOR THE ROSS AND STEINHEIL LENSES.
1878 EAGLE STOCK HOUSE. 1881
GEORGE MURPHY,
No. 9 West Fourth Street, N. Y.
Photo. & Ferro. Materials.
OUTFITS A SPECIALTY.
All Goods sold for Cash.
MANUFACTURER OF
Eagle Negative and Positive Collodions,
Eagle Negative and Ferro. Varnishes,
Eagle Retouching Fluid,
Eagle Ground Glass Varnish.
SOLE AGENT FOR
Hammenstede's Collodions and Varnishes,
Photo. Chemicals of best quality.
THE RETOUCHER'S OUTFIT:
Eagle New Metallic Pencil, hard, Eagle New Metallic Pencil, soft,
Medium Siberian Lead, Artists' Holder, to fit all,
The most complete set offered.
FOR THE PRINTER'S DEPARTMENT is offered
Eagle Photo-Printing Masks, English White Tissue Paper,
Thick Yellow Paper, Onion-Skin Paper,
Heavy Blotting Paper, Plain Papers,
Albumen Papers of all brands.
Am also Agent for BRENGEL'S SALTED PAPER.
Emulsion and Gelatine Dry Plate Materials,
Emulsion and Gelatine Dry Plates, best brands,
Backgrounds, Chairs, Accessories, etc.
Bargains in Card Stock. Bargains in Apparatus, Lenses, etc.
Domestic and Foreign CASH ORDERS Shipped Promptly.
Four Doors West of B'way. NEW YORK.
ESTABLISHED IN 1802.
FACTORIES: Waterbury, Conn., New Haven, Conn., New York City.
Scovill Manufacturing Co.,
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
ALL ARTICLES USED IN PHOTOGRAPHY,
Warehouse, No's 419 & 421 Broome St.,
NEW YORK.
W. Irving Adams, Agent.
Irving and all brands of Albumen Papers,
Phenix Collodion, Phenix Varnish,
French and other Chemicals,
Scovill's New Solid Glass Baths, [warranted.]
Osborne's Picturesque Foregrounds,
American Optical Co's Celebrated Cameras,
Dry Plates and Dry Plate Apparatus,
Lenses,
Parlor Paste,
Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.
PUBLISHERS
Photographic Times and American Photographer.
Subscription price, $2 00 per annum.
Among its contributors are the leading men in the profession.
