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Color Values in ^ 
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 A LECTURE ON 
 
 Orthochromatic 
 Photography 
 
 Delivered before the Canadian Institute 
 February J6th, J90J, by 
 
 J JOHN S. PLASKETT, B.A., 
 
 Department of Physics, University of Toronto 
 /j TORONTO, Canada 
 
 With the Compliments oj the Author, 
 
Color Values in Monochrome 
 by Photography 
 
 It is a matter of common ( vperience 
 among all photographers, that the print from 
 a negative taken on an ordinary plate Joes 
 not represent, even approximately, colors in 
 their true values. Everyone has noticed, for 
 instance, that in general, in photographs, 
 blue, a comparatively dark color, is repre- 
 sented by a tone several shades lighter than 
 that produced by the much brighter color, 
 yellow. We have grown so accustomed to 
 this defect of photography that a photo- 
 graphic print which correctly represents the 
 color values of the object, looks strange and, 
 at first glance, untrue. It is, however, not a 
 matter of common knowledge that this de- 
 fect of photography can be overcome, and 
 that colors can be represented in their true 
 values, or, what is a better term, luminosi- 
 ties in a monochromatic print. 
 
 Lisxht and ^" ^^® ^^^^ place, it is neces- 
 ^ < sary to investigate tJie nature 
 
 of color and the nature of 
 the effects produced by it, or rather 
 by what causes it, on the photographic 
 plate. It seems hardly necessary to 
 state that color, as a purely physical process, 
 
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does not exist, but that it is a physiological 
 eflFect peculiar to the eye; that, without the 
 eye, there would be neither liglit nor color, 
 but merely an exceedingly rapid and, at the 
 same time very minute vibration or quivering- 
 of that hypothetical medium, filling all space, 
 which is called the ether. It is this vibration, 
 acting on the retina, that is the primary 
 cause of the sense of sight ; while the vari- 
 ous colors tnat we see are produced by dif- 
 ferences in the magnitudes and, at the same 
 time, in the frequency of these vibrations ; 
 the ether waves that produce the red and 
 orange colors being longer than those that 
 give rise to violet and blue. Roughly speak- 
 ing the sensation of red is caused by waves 
 in the ether about a-.'.oTF inch long, green by 
 waves TTirioo inch lor ,', and violet by waves 
 ffoiTolJ inch long. Similarly the effects on a 
 photographic plate are due, not to any par- 
 ticular co'^'- or colors, but to ether vibrations 
 of certain definite wave lengths, some of 
 these producing, when acting on the retina 
 the sensation of color, while others, which 
 strongly affect the plate, have no action on 
 the eye. If throughout this paper, therefore, 
 certain colors are spoken of as acting on the 
 plate, it is to be understood as referring to 
 the particular ether vibrations that excite 
 those color sensations. 
 
 Color There are three constants gen- 
 
 Constants 7''^ """if '" "^fT^ '°'°'" = 
 
 runty, Hue and Lummosity. 
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 Tv.aK^«inMM^iBiii^3i&ii»'«aiiir7v»tt*"^^'«'%'<t?^ m^'wev^nat. 
 
Purity ^''^ |>"rity ot a color refers 
 
 to its freedom from admixture 
 with any oilier color and is always judjfed 
 with reference to the spectrum, whose colors, 
 when it is properly formed, are absolutely 
 pure. A spectrum, appioximately pure, can 
 be formed by project inj^, by means of the 
 lantern, an image of a narrow slit in a piece 
 of metal in the slide carrier on the screen, 
 and interposing^ in the path of the rays a 
 prism or prisms. The narrow band of white 
 hg;t is broken up or decomposed by the 
 The prisms into a broad, brilliantly- 
 
 colored band whose appearance 
 spectrum is familiar to all. The general 
 arrangement and spacing of the colors can 
 be seen by reference to the upper, left-hand 
 corner of Fig. i, pages 24-25, which is a dia- 
 gram of the particular spectrum used. The 
 lines drawn across the diagram and lettered 
 are the principal absorption lines of the solar 
 spectrum, and answer the purpose of indicat- 
 ing, when their positions are known, the wave 
 length and color of the light at any part of 
 tiie spectrum. The lengths of the ether 
 waves decrease as you go from the line A to 
 the line H or from red to violet, and any par- 
 ticular color can be exactly defined by giving 
 the length of the wave producing it. Purity 
 of color, then, is due to light of, approxi- 
 mately, a single wave length, represented of 
 course by a very narrow band in the spec- 
 trum, and not to the superposition of waves 
 of different lengths which would produce an 
 
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!■• ^ , itnpure color. All natural colors 
 
 Natural ' „ .. 
 
 are, |j;enerally speaking, more 
 VrfOiOrS or less impure, and are produced 
 
 by the mi^i e of pure colors ; but all colors 
 appear pure tO the eye which has not the 
 power of esthnating, unaided, the purity of a 
 color, or of resolving impure or mixed colors 
 into their constituents. A color wliich, to the 
 eye, appears pure, and as nearly as possible 
 equal to the spectrum color, may be com- 
 posed of nearly all the spectrum colors. 
 This can be shown by interposing colored 
 glasses in the path of the beam of light pro- 
 
 * « , ducing the spectrum. The 
 
 Absorption ^j^^^^ .^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ absorb, 
 
 opCCtra partially or wholly, some of 
 
 ihe colors, allowing the others to be fully 
 transmitted, and this is illustrated in black 
 and white by the diagrams in Fig. 2. The 
 rectangular figures are intended to represent 
 the spectrum of white light, while the shaded 
 portion represents the part transmitted by 
 the particular glass considered, and the 
 unshaded part what is absorbed. The 
 .esultant color of the glass by transmitted 
 light is evidently that produced by the union 
 of the spectral colors transmitted. 
 
 The hue of a color is the name 
 given to wh<it is commonly 
 known as color, without reference to other 
 attributes. Ordinarily when we speak of a 
 particular color, we mean the hue of thatcolor 
 and do not refer to either the purity or the 
 
 Hue 
 
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t ■■ CD c t> r 
 
 OBANtiE GLASS 
 
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 GREFN CI. A;,; 
 
 BLUE CLASS 
 
 
 METHYL 
 
 VIOLET 
 
 
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 .. .i .r'':;A 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 AURANTIA 
 
 METHYL VIOLET AND AURANTIA 
 Fir. i- 
 
 luminosity. Thus the hue of blue glass if 
 blue, although, on analysis, it is found to 
 contain not only blue but all the other colors 
 of the spectrum, in a greater or less degree, 
 blue and violet predominating. It is the 
 combination of these pure colors in a certain 
 
proportion that produces the blue hue whtfch 
 is, of course, not pure. 
 
 Luminosity J,^^ '"'^"'^y °f - color is 
 
 ' the relat've brightness of that 
 color with reference to ny standard, and is 
 evidertly the only attribute of color that can 
 be rendered in black and white. Photo- 
 graphy, being a process in monochrome, can 
 not render contrasts of color or hue, but only 
 contrasts of luminosity or light and shade. 
 That is to say if there are two hues, red and 
 blue, for instance, of the same luminosity, a 
 photograph or any reproduction in mono- 
 chrome should represent them as of exactly 
 the same shade of grey. The truth of this 
 statement will perhaps be more evident to 
 you, if you ask yourself which should be the 
 darker. Ordinarily, however, a photograph 
 will not represent them as of the same tint, 
 and our object is to see if we can not obtain, 
 in a photograph, an exact representation of 
 the luminosities of the object or objects de- 
 picted, irrespective of their colors. Evidently, 
 then, it is necessary, in order to make ac- 
 curate comparisons, to measure the relative 
 luminosities of colors. 
 
 Luminosity ^^ *^ ^^ once seen on observ- 
 r .1 ing the spectrum, that cer- 
 
 tain of the colors, such as 
 opecirum orange and yellow, are much 
 
 brighter or more luminous than any of 
 the others. The actual brightness, or 
 luminosity, or light intensity of the 
 
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various colors of the pure prismatic spectrum 
 has been accurately determined by many in- 
 vestigators, Frauenhofer,Crova and Lagarde, 
 Abney and others. Captain, or as he now is, 
 Sir William Abney's values were taken and 
 plotted out as ordinates or vertical lengths 
 above the spectrum diagram of Fig. i, pages 
 24-25, before referred to. Thus, for each par- 
 ticular wave length or corresponding color, the 
 value of the luminosity was taken, and a 
 length proportioned to that value was set out 
 in the vertical line through its position on the 
 spectrum diagram. The resultant curve, 
 drawn through these points, shows graphically 
 the luminosity at any part or of any color of 
 the spectrum. It is at once seen, from the 
 figure, that greenish yellow is the brightest 
 color, the values shading down rapidly on 
 either side to the red andblue. 
 
 Luminosity ?^ '^^" "°*' °^ course, be 
 r o. . inferred from this that, in 
 
 * natural or pigment colors, 
 
 VrfOlOrS greenish yellow is at vays the 
 
 brightest ; in fact it may be so shaded with 
 black as to be less luminous than a red or 
 blue. In order to obtain the luminosities of 
 colors, other than the pure spectrum 
 colors, which are in actual practice seldom 
 used, it is necessary to measure them. 
 There are several methods of doing this, 
 perhaps the simplest being to compare the 
 luminosity of the color to be measured, with 
 the luminosity of the grey produced by the 
 
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mixtureof black and white. A disc of Wack 
 and a disc of white card of the same diameter, 
 which were slit along a radius to allow over- 
 lappings, were placed on the same axis as a 
 disc, of greater diameter, of the color to be 
 measured and rapidly rotated. The eye de- 
 termines, almost instinctively, whether the 
 color is brighter or darker than the grey 
 produced. When it is judged that they are 
 equally bright the luminosity of the grey, and 
 hence of the color, is determined from the 
 relative proportions of black and white pro- 
 ducing the required grey. If the rotation 
 apparatus has a device for changing the pro- 
 portions of black and white during rotation, 
 the measurement is much more easily and 
 accurately made. By this method, and with 
 the assistance of Mr. A. H. Abbott, 8. A., of 
 the Psychological Laboratory of the Univer- 
 sity, who has had considerable experience in 
 photometry, the luminosities of a set of 
 colors, for which I am also indebted to Mr. 
 Qj|« Abbott, were determined. These 
 
 CU ♦ colors, pasted on black card- 
 
 ^ *'* board, were used as a test 
 
 object, and a photograph of this test chart is 
 reproduced in Fig. 3. It will at once be 
 seen, from the card being represented white, 
 that the figure is a negative of the chart. In 
 that case, if the plate correctly rendered 
 luminosities, the brighter the color the darker 
 should be its representation. In fact the 
 densities of the rtrips should be proportional 
 to the lengths of the radial lines which repre- 
 
F'Sr- 3-— Color Chart on Cramer " C " Plate. 
 
 sent, graphically, the measured luminosities 
 of the colors. The negative, of which Fig. 3 
 is a reproduction, was made on an "ordi- 
 nary " (Cramer '* C ") plate, and it shows, at 
 a glance, the correctness or rather the incor- 
 rectness of the representation. The brightest 
 colors, Nos. 9 and 10 (yellow and yellowish 
 green), instead of being represented by the 
 heaviest deposit, have only slightly affected 
 the plate, while some of the darker colors, 
 notably the blue (No. 17), have the greatest 
 action on the plate as represented by the 
 densest deposit. 
 
li > 
 I! . 
 
 PhotOgfraphs ^^^ explanation of .this 
 of the curious result is easily 
 
 Spectrum "^T* '^^^" ^°" ^''^'"'"^ 
 
 ^ a photogfrapl. of the spec- 
 
 trum on such a plate. Fig. 4 is a reproduc- 
 tion of the negative and has superposed, in 
 addition, the spectrum chart and luminosity 
 curve previously referred to. The positions 
 of the colors and of the absorption lines are 
 shown by the latter, and it can at once be 
 
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 R ED |0?'0> J GY-; GRF.ttl 
 
 Fig: 4.- Photograph Spectrum on Cramer " C" Quartz Prism. 
 
 seen which of the spectrum colors are im- 
 pressed on the plate. It is found that the 
 waves giving rise to the red, orange, yellow, 
 and yellow-green colors have no eflf.-t on the 
 plate ; while waves giving rise to th ae and 
 violet sensations, and other waves _ .,ed the 
 ultra violet, beyond the limit of the visible 
 specirum, produce very marked deposits on 
 the plate. This peculiar behaviour of the 
 plate under the spectrum at once affords an 
 
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explanation for Ihe defective renderings of 
 color values in the photograph of the color 
 chirt, and will also explain the peculiarities 
 of color rendering so common in ordinary 
 photographs. 
 
 Color 
 
 Sensitive 
 
 Plates 
 
 The evident remedy for such 
 a state of affairs is to produce 
 a plate which is sensitive to 
 all the visible spectrum colors, 
 and, moreover, which is most sensitive to 
 those which are most luminous, and in direct 
 proportion to their luminosity. For if we can 
 photograph the spectrum correctly, we can 
 also photograph any other object correctly, 
 whose colors are always composed of spectral 
 or mixtures of spectral colors. And, in fact, 
 we can reproduce natural colors more satis- 
 factorily than spectrum colors, for the reason 
 that, although the dominant hue of the object 
 may be one that, if pure, would not affect the 
 plate, still other colors composing this domi- 
 nant hue may be active and help to produce 
 a truer rendering than if the colors were pure. 
 
 »¥•* T « 1 A plate, sensitive to wave 
 
 The Ideal , .. .. . „ 
 
 lengths correspondmg to all 
 X late the spectral colors in proportion 
 
 to their luminosity, and insensitive to wave 
 lengths longer or shorter than these, has not 
 yet been discovered, nor, if an opinion may 
 be expressed, will it ever be discovered. We 
 have plates now, however, which are a de- 
 cided improvement over the ordinary type, 
 
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and which, by the aid of a certain artifice, 
 \yill produce exceedingly close approxima- 
 tions to the ideal result. 
 
 Historical ^^* ori^^inator of this later type 
 Of . * of plate was, undoubtedly, the 
 
 OKCtcn late Prof. H. W. Vogel, of 
 
 Berlin, who, in 1873, observed that collodio- 
 bromide plates, stained with a yellow dye, 
 were much more sensitive to the yellow band 
 of the spectrum than unstained plates, and 
 who, after further investigation, announced 
 that if certain red or yellow dyes were used 
 to stain these dry collodion plates, their sen- 
 fitiveness to yellow and green was much 
 increased. This discovery created quite a 
 sensation in the photographic world, and the 
 action of a large number of the coal tar dyes 
 was investigated by scientists such as Eder, 
 Abney, Bothamley, Ives and others. The 
 introduction of the gelatino-bromide dry plate, 
 and its marvellous qualities sorbed photo- 
 graphers' attention for some time, and ortho- 
 chromatism (from two Greek words meaning 
 " correct color "), as it was called, was 
 allowed to lapse, and was apparentl> fc-got- 
 
 Commercial '^"\,.^"^ '" .SSa-'Sj Tailfer 
 p _ and Clayton at Paris patented 
 
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 a method for making the 
 gelatino-bromide dry plate color-sensitive by 
 adding eosin to the emulsion before coating. 
 This method, improved as regards the keep- 
 ing qualities of the plaies, was introduced 
 
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into England by B. J. Edwards & Co. in 1884. 
 
 . , In America, John Carbutt in- 
 
 American ^ugurated the commercial man- 
 ufacture of color-sensitive plates in 1886, 
 while later the Cramer Co. purchased the 
 Edward's process and so improved it that, 
 according to their claim, the use of color 
 screens was largely avoided. They called 
 their productions isochromatic (equal color) 
 plates, and these plates, which give very 
 good results, can be obtained in Toronto. 
 Many of the American dry plate manufactur- 
 ers have now added orthochromatic plates to 
 _ < the list of their products. In 
 
 French France Lumi^re Bros, have in- 
 
 troduced a remarkable series of plates sensi- 
 tised for varying portions of the spectrum. 
 Series A, sensitive to yellow and green ; 
 series B, sensitive to yellow and red ; and 
 series C or panchromatic sensitive to red, 
 yellow, and green. In this connection it 
 must be noticed that all orthochromatic plates, 
 as well as ordinary plates, are decidedly too 
 sensitive to blue and violet. In England 
 _, ^, f among several commercial 
 CngflfStl brands of orthochromatic plates, 
 besides Edward's, already referred to, I will 
 only mention two, the Ilford chromatic and 
 the Cadett spectrum, as these can be obtained 
 in Toronto, The Ilford chromatic is a very 
 clear working and brilliant plate, with which 
 excellent results can be obtained ; its prin- 
 cipal disadvantage is its slowness, which 
 
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 , practically debars its use, especially with 
 screen, wherever there is movement. ^ 
 
 The Cadett Spectrum Plate is re- 
 markable in two ways: for its extreme 
 rapidity, being: by far the fastest ortho- 
 chromatic plate made, and for its sensi- 
 tiveness to all the spectrum colors, with 
 the exception of a narrow band in the 
 extreme red. Messrs. Cadett and 
 Neall have issued light filters for use 
 with the Spectrum plate, which enable 
 a true record of color luminosities, with 
 the exception of the dark red before 
 mentioned to be obtained. 
 
 The '^ *^*" "°^ ^®' *^ y®^' definitely 
 
 Thco explained why the silver salts 
 
 ' in the film are rendered sensi- 
 tive to light vibrations of longer wavelength, 
 by the addition of certain dyes. Two 
 theories have been propounded to account for 
 it. According to the physical theory, the 
 light vibrations absorbed by the dyes are 
 transferred to the silver ^alts, thus rendering 
 them sensitive in the region of absorption. 
 In support of this theory is the fact that each 
 dye sensitises in that portion of the spectrum 
 which it absorbs. The chemical theory 
 states that the coloring matter is decom- 
 posed under the action of light, the complex 
 molecule of the dye giving rise to products, 
 which act as reducing agents on the silver 
 salts. In support of tiiis theory, in likeman- 
 
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ner, is the fact that the best sensitisers are 
 those dyes most unstable under the action 
 of light. 
 
 vir A^f jf f There are, as will have been 
 
 Methods of ,- a e .u i • . • • 
 
 ^ ^ ^ noticed from the historical 
 
 Sensitising sketch, two methods of 
 orthochromatising, or, more simply, sensitis- 
 ing plates. The first method is by immers- 
 ing an ordinary plate in a bath of the dye 
 solution, eosin, erythrosin, and cyanin, being 
 the dyes most commonly employed. The 
 second method is to incorporate the dye with 
 the emulsion in the process of manufacture. 
 Practically the same effects can be obtained, 
 but, aside from the troublesome nature of the 
 first process, plates prepared by bathing 
 have not good keeping qualities, from one to 
 four weeks being the limit ; while plates pre- 
 pared by the second method keep nearly as 
 well as ordinary plates. In preparing plates 
 by the bath method only a very weak solu- 
 tion of the dye is needed, one part in from 
 3,000 to 25,000 parts of water ; and, to 
 increase the sensitiveness of the plates, 
 although reducing their keeping qualities, a 
 little ammonia may be added. The plates 
 are immersed for one or two minutes, as a 
 rule, and are then dried in the dark. 
 
 T> ,* J I prepared some Cramer " C " 
 plates by immersion, sensi- 
 r^lates tising them with eosin, with 
 
 erythrosin, and with cyanin, and ihese plates 
 were then used to photograph the spectrum. 
 
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if it is desired to obtain exact quant itive 
 results from a test of this nature it is neces- 
 sary to form a pure spectrum on the plate by 
 means of a spectroscope. This could not be 
 arranged without special apparatus, so a 
 spectrum, formed as previously described, 
 was used and a photograph of this taken in 
 Spectrum ^ .-•^'"era. The results ob- 
 
 T>, , tamed by this method, 
 
 rhotOgraphs although not giving an 
 exact measure of the amount of light action 
 of the various parts of the spectrum, clearly 
 indicate the effects produced on the different 
 plates, and, when placed in the form of dia- 
 grams, enable comparisons to be made. 
 From the negatives thus obtained curves 
 were drawn, in the same manner as the 
 luminosity curve before refened to, except 
 that the length of the vertical lines was taken 
 as proportional to the light action on the 
 plate, or, what is the same thing, to the 
 density of the resulting ntn-ative. The 
 GraohfCal ""^^"'^^"^ curve and the lumin- 
 M ffirt/4 °^'*^ curve were then drawn 
 
 Method above a figure showing the 
 
 positions of the absorption lines, and evi- 
 dently, the more nearly these curves coincide, 
 the better will be the color renderings of the 
 plate. In the upper, right-hand corner of 
 Fig. 1 is the diagram representing the effect 
 on a Cramer "C " plate, the negative itself 
 being reproduced in Fig. 4, and at the other 
 side of ihe figure is another diagram from 
 the same brand. The former was taken 
 
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from a spectrum produced by a quartz prism, 
 which transmits the ultra violet waves, while 
 jflass prisms, used in the latter, and in all the 
 others, absorb them. It will be observed, 
 from the diagrams of the bathed plates, that 
 the general effect is to render them sensitive 
 to the longer waves without appreciably 
 diminishing their sensitiveness to the shorter 
 or blue and violet waves. 
 
 CommerCfal The other diagrams shown 
 Ortho- '" ^*^- ' were drawn, as will 
 
 chromAt'r ^® ^^®" ''^°'" '^® titles in the 
 figure, from negatives of the 
 spectrum on three different 
 
 Plates 
 
 Fig 5.— Photogrraph of Spectrum on Cramer Iso. Med. 
 
 brands of commercial orthochromatic plates, 
 the Cramer Isochromatic of medium speed, 
 the Ilford Chromatic, and the Cadett Light- 
 ning Spectrum. These are, so far as I know, 
 the only makes obtainable in Toronto. To 
 avoid choosing any pprticiilar brand for 
 experiment, the three were investigated, as 
 impartially as possible, and the results will be 
 
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presented with no more comment than seems 
 necessary for explanation. Fig. 5 is a repro- 
 duction of a negative of the spectrum on a 
 Cramer Isochromatic medium plate, and it 
 can at once be seen how much better an 
 effect is produced than on a Cramer ordinary 
 plate. The greatest density now is obtained 
 between the D and E lines, in the greenish- 
 yellow, nearly at the point of greatest lumin- 
 osity. The diagrams in Fig. i, pages 24-35, 
 show quite a similarity, especially between 
 the Ilford and Cramer, the Cadett, how- 
 ever, being more sensitive to the orange and 
 red waves, 
 o ' 4a. These curves show that, 
 
 Sensftiveneis ,., . ., . ..,. . 
 
 _ although the addition of a 
 
 to Olue dye or dygs tj, J he emulsion, 
 
 before or after coating, has the eflfect of 
 renoering the plates sensitive to vibrations 
 causing sensations of green, yellow, and in 
 some cases, red, there is still too great sensi- 
 tiveness, by far, to the vibrations giving rise 
 to blue and violet sensations, to correctly 
 render color uiminosities. There are two 
 WW .« J r methods of overcoming this 
 
 Methods 01 ..a, ,. c » u ^ • • .. 
 
 ^ ditficulty : hr-,t, by dimmish- 
 
 LiOfreCtingf \„g (he sensitiveness of the 
 plates to the blue and violet waves, second, 
 by diminishing the action of the blue and 
 violet waves on the plate. A correction, or 
 even an approach to a correction, by the first 
 method has not yet been attained, nor does it 
 appear likely to be attained. The second 
 method, however, offers a simple means, by 
 
absorbing part of the blue and violet waves, 
 of overcomiii); the difticulty. It will be 
 remembered that the effect of interpoHing 
 colored glass in the path of the beam pro- 
 ducing the spectrum was to absorb, partially 
 or wholly, some of the spectrum colors. If 
 then a colored glass or film can be obtained, 
 which will absorb most of the blue and violet 
 and all the ultra violet waves, and if this be 
 placed in the path of the beam of light enter- 
 ing the camera, near the lens being the most 
 convenient place, the luminosity renderings 
 should be materially benefited. 
 ^1 A device of this nature is called 
 
 a color screen or ray filter, and 
 OCfCCns its appearance by transmitted 
 light is, in general, yellow or orange. The 
 absorption diagram of orange glass in Fig. 2 
 represents, in a general way, the absorption 
 caused by color screens. Screens may be 
 composed of colored glass, stained gelatine 
 or collodion film, or a liquid solution contained 
 in a thin glass cell with parallel sides. They 
 may be placed in front of, or behind the lens 
 of the camera, or directly in front of the 
 plate ; or the same object would be attained 
 by illuminating the subject with yellow or 
 orange light. The dyes commonly employed 
 for staining the films are some of the coal tar 
 series, the principal ones being aurantia, 
 aniline yellow, naphthol yellow, brilliant yel- 
 low and others, while chromate and bichro- 
 mate of potassium in solution are generally 
 used for liquid screens. 
 
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m-9 
 
 Fig. 6.— Photograph of Spectrut. on Ilford Chromatic and Screen. 
 Eff«''t of ^^® effect produced by 
 
 r' 1 " Q employing^ such screens 
 
 Cooler :>CfCCns ^hen photographing the 
 spectrum is shown in Figs. 6 and 7, which are 
 repfoductions of the negatives obtained. 
 Fig. 6 is a negative on an Ilford chromatic 
 plate using a liquid screen of a yellow color, 
 while Fig. 7 is a negative on a Cadett spec- 
 trum plate using the Cadett Absolutus screen, 
 which is of a reddish orange color. Again 
 Fig. I pages 24-25, represents, diagrammati- 
 cally, these results, with two others, and shows 
 
 G , BLUE B V : ViOLCf 
 
 ^*g- 7 —Photograph of Spectrum on Cadett Spectrum 
 .ind Absolutus Screen. 
 
 —33 — 
 
«-r 
 
 *ir 
 
 as» 
 
 the decided advantage of using screens. The 
 two curves are brought nearer to coincidence, 
 especially when using the Absolutus screen, 
 and the effects obtained thus approach very 
 closely the ideal result. 
 
 ^1 r Evidently, the yellower or more 
 
 orange the screen the more blue 
 OCrecnS ;§ cut out, and it is easily possible 
 to get a screen so deep in color as to render 
 the blues too dark in the print, while, if not 
 deep enough, they wil! be too light. It will 
 be noticed, also, in the diagrams of the un- 
 screened plates, that each brand has a dif- 
 ferent shape of curve, and one screen will not, 
 therefore, suit all plates. To obtain the best 
 results, the screen should be so adjusted to 
 the plate as to absorb waves having too 
 vigorous an action, and to transmit freely 
 ^1 r* J 4.4. those with too feeble an 
 1 nc ^aaett action. Up to the present 
 Screens Cadett and Neall are the 
 
 ONLY makers of orthochromatic plates who 
 have attempted to supply screens correctly 
 adjusted. They have issued two screens {' : 
 use with the Spectrum plate, the Gilvus and 
 the Absolutus. The Gilvus increases the ex- 
 posure about five times, and tlie Absolutus 
 about forty times. This increase of exposure 
 is due to the absorption of the most chemi- 
 cally active waves, and applies, of course, in 
 a greater or less degree to all color screens. 
 It is claimed that the Gilvus screen gives 
 correct rendering of all color luminosities but 
 
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x 
 
 ll 1 
 
 ^1 
 
 ^^./T ■ 
 
 ^ 
 
 .■-. ^ 
 
 Iliii 
 
 
 ,y all (f/^ a ff 4 f 
 
 MJl-Jg'M-'jyl t' '<f^E''J |Bc| BLUE IBV I violet' 
 
 f >.-*-f^f^<iMi ,..>egg|r£ 
 
 -24— 
 
 Fiffi 
 
 •!■ »■" 1^/.*^ *ii'«" ii>. 
 
 'J. * 
 
I 
 
 icilAIIEl|-C- "CWAKTZ [fKISM 
 
 I — ' T-t*»tXTlM?,cnfw ' r 
 
 — »5- 
 
the red, and the Absolutus gives correct 
 values to all colors but a narrow band in the 
 extreme red. The Ilford Co. also supply two 
 screens of colored glass, a light and a dark, 
 increasing exposure about three and six times 
 respectively. The screens of course, are not 
 adjustable, and no claim is made as to color 
 renderings. The Cadett screens are, I be- 
 lieve, made of four stained films, two gelatine 
 and two collodion sealed in optical contact 
 between two pieces of optically worked glass, 
 and hence allow considerable variations in 
 Absorption ^^^ absorptions produced. 
 Spectra of "^^ese absorptions, and that 
 o J of the liquid screen used, are 
 
 OCreens indicated, in a rough way, by 
 
 the shaded part of the rectangle below the 
 diagrams in Fig. i. On comparing this with 
 the curve above, and with the curve for 
 the same plate without a screen a very good 
 idea of the function of the screen may be ob- 
 tained. 
 
 'Ill 
 
 111 
 
 IP I 
 
 liii 
 
 ilii 
 
 
 Method of ^^^ ^^"^^ curves will also 
 A J, serve to indicate the method 
 
 Adjastment ^o be pursued in adjusting 
 screens to plates. Take a photograph of a 
 pure spectrum through the screen to be tested 
 on the plate to be tested, measure the densi- 
 ties of the different parts of your negative, 
 and plot a curve to correspond. It can at 
 once be seen, on comparing this curve with 
 the luminosity curve, what colors have too 
 vigorous an action, and the screen can be 
 
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 ISKi'.^W'BK 
 
changed to absorb more of that color. It is 
 essentially a method of trial and error, and, 
 owing to the tedious photometric measure- 
 ment of densities, is not suited for commercial 
 purposes. 
 
 Abney's Captain Abney has devised 
 
 CoIq, ^ simple instrument, which 
 
 Sensitometer forThl" "'" ''"''"'■""^'- 
 
 tor the same purpose. He 
 takes, usually, four pieces of colored glass, 
 red, yellow, green and blue, which transmit 
 approximately pure colored light. The 
 luminosity of the light transmitted by each is 
 accurately measu^-d, and behind the three 
 lightest are introduced rotating sectors, or 
 patches of developed grey of such density as 
 to reduce their luminosity to that of the 
 darkes . Then red, yellow, green and blue 
 light, all of equal luminosity, will be trans- 
 mitted, which should give, on a pUte behind 
 a correctly adjusted filter, patches of equal 
 density. As the glasses need only be very 
 small, the whole apparatus, with the plate to 
 be tested, can easily be placed in a quarter 
 plate printing frame, and hence is quickly 
 and cheaply tested. If the patches are not of 
 equal density, and this can readily be judged 
 by the eye, the filter must be changed to 
 absorb more of the color giving too dense a 
 patch, or less of the color giving too light a 
 patch. This, as before, is a method of trial 
 and error, but with the advantage over the 
 former of avoiding the tedious measurement 
 
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 ^m 
 
 ]^r 
 
Wi' 
 
 7C <'*if 0' f 
 
 of densities, and of overcoming possibly 
 errors due to improper exposure or develop- 
 ment, while the results obtained with screens 
 so adjusted, should be equally good. 
 
 Results ^^® results obtained in photo- 
 e graphing the spectrum 
 
 decidedly the 
 Spectrum orthoch'-omatic 
 
 show 
 advantages of 
 over ordinary 
 plates, the advantages of screened over 
 unscreened orthochromatic plates, and 
 finally the advantages of scientifically 
 screened orlhochromotic plates over all 
 others. In photographing colored objects of 
 all kinds we will see that the same results 
 obt£tin as in the photographs of the spectrum. 
 This is what is to be expected when it is con- 
 sidered that the colors of all objects are either 
 spectral colors or mixtures of spectral colors. 
 
 ja *. p Asa test object, a color chart 
 
 Results from , . . 
 
 was construe) ed by pastmg 
 VrfOlOr Chart colored paper on a sheet of 
 black cardboard. Twenty-four different 
 hues, intended to represent spectral colors 
 as closely as possible, were arranged on the 
 circumference of a circle and four different 
 shades of grey inside. At the two lower 
 corners of the card ten other colors were 
 arranged in two squares. As a guide to the 
 colors arranged on the circumference I may 
 say that No. i is red. No. 5 orange. No. 9 
 yellow, No. 13 green. No. 17 blue. No. 21 
 violet, and the intermediate strips are inter- 
 mediate in hue. As before mentioned, the 
 
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 1/' 
 
 
 ifO 
 
 
radial lines around the circumference repre- 
 sent, by their lengths, the luminosities of the 
 colors, and, in the same way, the lines 
 arranged between the two colored squares 
 represent the luminosities of the strips com- 
 posing the squares. It must be distinctly 
 remembered that all the figures of this chart 
 are reproductions of negatives, and hence, in 
 a correct rendering of the color luminosities 
 of the strips, the densities of the patches of 
 grey representing the strips should be exact- 
 ly proportional to the lengths of the lines 
 ^^ 4, beside them. Fig. -i, already 
 
 Ordinary . ^ • '. 
 
 ' mentioned, is a negative on a 
 Plates Cramer " C " plate and imme- 
 
 Fig. 8- Photograph Color Chart en Cramer Iso Med. 
 diately shows the very faulty record given by 
 ordinary plates. Three other brands of 
 ordinary plates were tried, and, although the 
 
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 Photogrraph of Color Chart on Ilford Chromatic. 
 
 Fig:. lo. 
 Photograph of Color Chart on Cadett JSpectrum. 
 
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differences were not very marked, the 
 Cramer was undoubtedly the best. Fig. 8 is 
 Oftho- ^^^of" •f>eneg:ative on a Cramer 
 
 chromatic ]T '"^'^'""' ^^^^^' ^''«' 9 a" 
 
 Plates ^ Chromatic and Fig. lo a 
 
 Cadett Spectrum. These three, 
 although giving a much better result than 
 ordinary plates, are still far from perfect. 
 The patches representing the blue and violet 
 strips are mt.ch too dense, while the yellows 
 Advantage ^""^ "o»«le"se enough. When 
 
 of Screens Tr "'^ '^^ "^""^ '^'"^^^ ^' 
 
 betore, a screen to absorb 
 some of the blue and violet, the improvement 
 >s decidedly marked and in three of the 
 remaining figures the values of the circular 
 set of strips are as nearly as can be judged 
 by the eye, approximately correct. Figs. 1 1 
 and 1 2 are on Ilford Chromatic plates with the 
 Ilford light screen and a liquid screen of a 
 full yellow color respectively. Figs. 13 and 
 14 are on Cadett Spectrum plates with the 
 G.lvus and the Absolutus screens respectively. 
 The two lower squares form a severer lest 
 of the qualities of plates and screens than 
 the circle, and it is with these that the final 
 comparison must be made. 
 
 Composite '^ '** evident, from the compari- 
 Nature of ''°" °^ spectrum and color chart 
 Colors "^&at'V'-s on ordinary plates, 
 
 that the values given by the 
 latter, although far from correct, are not so 
 faulty as we would be led to expect from the 
 photographs of the spectrum. The cause of 
 
 —31 — 
 
Iff. II. 
 
 Photojfraph of Color Chart on llford and Ilford Screen 
 
 *• ■.! 
 
 Fi^. 12. 
 
 Photogrraph oi Color Chart on UforC, and Bichrome 
 
 Screen. 
 
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 ""■W^ r'.iMP'T^I- a.; 
 
 . «...j>':«apuMBWe 
 
Photosrraph ot Color Chart on Cadett Spictrum and 
 Uilvus Screen. 
 
 Fib:. 14. 
 
 Phot-graph of Color Chart .,.. Cndclt Spectrum and 
 
 Ahsolutus Screen. 
 
this IS evident when the colors are analysed 
 spectroscopically. h will be found that they 
 do not reflect one or two colors only, but, 
 generally speaking:, all the colors but one or 
 two, which are, of course, complementary to 
 the dominant hue. The composite nature of 
 these colors, and indeed of all colors in nature, 
 •sanaid lo their coriect rendering. If the 
 colors of natural objects were pure spectral 
 colors, the ordinary plate, being sensitive 
 only to the blue and violet, would not be 
 affected by j^reen, yellow, orange or red, and, 
 as a consequence, they would alike be ren- 
 dered, in the print, as one mass of black 
 without form or detail. 
 
 Colored '^ '* * natural transition from 
 PictufM *^* pigment colors on the test 
 ^"'" chart to those used in paintings 
 and other colored pictures, and similar effects 
 will be noticed in their reproduction. In all 
 colored pictures, especially old paintings or 
 pictures containing deep brown or other 
 dark tints, the use fa screen, comparatively 
 deep in color, is necessary to obtain the values 
 of the different colors, and indeed it seems to 
 be impossible to obtain detail in the shadows 
 without such a screen. In the subject chosen 
 for reproduction (no figures ; slides shown in 
 original lecture) this is shown in a marked 
 degree. The difference between the results 
 obtained on ordinary and on orlhochromatic 
 plates without a screen is not very marked 
 but when screens are used the improvement 
 
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 fc 
 
 '■".^m 
 
"* very noticeable. Not only i« ,he effect 
 much more brilliant, and free fron, the flatness 
 which characterize, the former, but also de- 
 tail iH obtamed in the browns and reds which 
 .« entirely absent in the unscreened pictures. 
 Moreover ,t is quite evident from the result, 
 that a deep screen (the - Absolufus") jjives 
 much hr ,r rendering than a plain full yellow, 
 or orangre screen, and that, by the use of a 
 properly adjusted screen, effects completely 
 satisfying to the eye can be obtained. 
 
 Flowers ^^^ '''°'°" °^ nature, on the 
 other hand, are chiefly of in- 
 terest in this connection as they are present 
 m flowers, fruit, etc., and in landscapes. 
 Flower photography is another branch of the 
 art ,n which orthochromatic plates offer de- 
 cided advantages over ordinary plates. The 
 use of a screen, however, i. not so indispens- 
 able ,or . ,e best results as in the case of 
 pictures. Indeed, if there are no blue or 
 violet flowers, better results will often be 
 obtained without a screen, as its use. espe- 
 cially If at all deep in color, seems to intensify 
 he yellows, causing them to appear too white 
 
 LllITT- " ''""^- An exception must 
 be made to this statement in the caseof.he 
 Absolutus screen, which, when used with the 
 Spectrum plate, always possesses a decide ' 
 advantage. A screen is necessary, if there 
 are blue or violet flowers, to cut down their 
 actinic value and to prevent them appearing 
 
 tr.. f 'V^f^''"'- These points are illus- 
 trated in the slides (no figures) of crimson. 
 
 —35— 
 
P-nk, and yellow roses, and violcc-. The 
 or l>ochron,a.ic pla.es wi.l.ou, a sceen give 
 
 both ,he volets are by far ,00 light. The use 
 of a yellow screen, although bringing the 
 volets to their correct tone, ntakes the yellow 
 roses too light, and the only method of over 
 
 ad u d b, „„, „, .,.^ „,^„_^^^^ ^ 
 
 Landscapes 
 
 ;s '^^'^ '^^^ and. to most photo- 
 p.-aphers, the most important 
 l2Tl "' ■"•""-'"P"^. 'andscapes', also 
 exh b„s .„ comparative results the advant- 
 ages of color sensitive plates. At this time 
 of the year, wmter. when landscapes contair 
 ■ttle else but black and white, orthochroma" 
 UC pla.es naturally, do not show such 
 marked advantages over ordinary plates as 
 ■n s.nnng, summer or autumn. Thev still 
 
 sufficient to recommend their use. These 
 r».nts are : first, used with or without a 
 screen better detail in the snow can be 
 secured, second, parts of the landscape 
 uncovered with snow show much more ^e a'i 
 
 screen, than on ordinary plates, third 
 cloud ,„ be obtained without special car^ 
 
 as the landscape, and here also a screen is 
 an advantage. But it is chiefiy in the o h 
 reasons that the advantages of orthochroma- 
 
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fied ihal no one who makes a fair .rial of 
 
 or..,ochroma>ic and ordinary p.a.e. 1 he 
 
 an,e .nhjec. „i„ be ever a^ain con.en. Juh 
 
 the faulty records „f ,he la„er. These 
 
 scenes, are dlustra.ed by slides, are: im- 
 proved rendering of the various shades of 
 green .n the foliage, the genera, brightening 
 
 ing?„ t" "" " """ "' ""^ "^y- 'he clear^ 
 ■ng up of an excess of haze obscuring the 
 d-tance. and, finally, „,e p„,,ibiliTy „f 
 Qouds "blaming, especially when a 
 
 and l»„H '"'•'^'''^ ''"■"" '* "'«d, clouds 
 
 and landscape m the same negative. Even 
 
 wdl produce a very natural tone in the skv 
 gradually lightening as it approaches tfe 
 honzon, and any clouds, even very light and 
 fleecy ones, will show in the printf as i„ 
 nature, as white on a darker background 
 
 Screens ^''^ foregoing remarks indicate 
 
 the use „f '" ""^ ""'•'""'J' °f <^»«'. 
 
 the use of a screen is necessary if true color 
 
 values are desired. In ,he reproductio^ of 
 P^mentsinany form a screen is necessary 
 and .t ,s generally desirable in other subjects 
 as flowers and landscapes. If these attl; 
 objects contain yellows and greens Zy, 
 the use of a screen would not cause a marked 
 d,«^^rence in the result, but if there are Wue' 
 
 ~.:. 't;„rd::;rr";cf ••''""^ "'"- 
 
 vn their actinic value to cor- 
 
 —37— 
 
f 
 
 respond with their luminosity value is neces- 
 sary. 
 
 Varieties ''^'* regards the kind of filter, 
 of Screens *''^ ""^^^ desirable, if it could 
 be obtained of the correct tint, 
 would be a piece of optically worked colored 
 glass. But, as will readily be seen, it is 
 practically impossible to obtain a suitable 
 color. The liquid screens, such as the 
 Bausch & Lomb ray filter, present the ad- 
 vantage that their color can be varied by 
 altering the strength of the solution, but 
 possess the drawback that the liquid evapor- 
 ates knd requires replenishing, and that the 
 inside of the cell gets dirty and requires 
 cleaning, which is troublesome to accomplish. 
 Screens made of stained gelatine or collodion 
 films, eit^^er coated on glass or sealed be- 
 tween two glasses, can be obtained of any 
 desired tint and can consequently be cor- 
 rectly adjusted. There is no liquid to be 
 spilled and evaporate, but care has to be 
 taken to keep them from the light when not 
 in use, as there is danger of fading. 
 
 Cadett '" working with the Cadett spec- 
 
 _ trum plates, it would be advis- 
 
 OCreens able to use the screens they 
 supply, as much better results would be ob- 
 tained than with any screens not specially 
 adjusted. The Gilvus can be used for all, or 
 nearly all landscape work, and does not in- 
 crease the exposure sufficiently to prohibit 
 instantaneous work. The Absolut us should 
 
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be used where absolutely correct values are 
 required, and when the increase of ex josure 
 permitsr. If both can not be obtained, the 
 Gilvus would probably be the most generally 
 useful for amateur^. For use with the Ilford, 
 Cramer and other orthochromalic plates it is 
 useful to possess two screens, a yellow and 
 an orange, the yellow answering for ordinary 
 landscape work, and the orange when there 
 are fleecy clouds to be reproduced, or in 
 
 Unadjusted Ph°t08:'-aphing pictures. The 
 Ilford screens, light and dark, 
 OCrCCns ^^de of colored glass, would 
 
 answer for most purposes, and are quite con- 
 venient to use. Whatever screen is used, 
 however, it is essential that the glass or 
 glasses of which it is composed be perfectly 
 plane and parallel, or distortion, and conse- 
 quent loss of definition, will inevitably result. 
 
 ManipolatiOn ^^^°^^ concluding a few 
 of OrthocLfO- ••^'"^'^^^^ about the working 
 . , Tif A * °^ orthochromatic plates 
 matlC Plates ^j^ht be of service to be- 
 ginners in the method. It has often been 
 urged against their use that they are trouble- 
 some to manage in development, and of poor 
 keeping qualities. Orthochromatic plates, 
 certainly, can not be exposed so freely to the 
 regular ruby light as ordinary plates without 
 danger of fog, but ample light can be used, 
 especially in the latter stages of development, 
 to properly watch progress ; and while, per- 
 haps, not keeping so well as ordinary plates 
 
 —39— 
 
Exposure 
 
 their good qualities are preserved much 
 longer than is generally imagined ; for in- 
 stance, a box of Ilford Chromatic plates, 
 which I purchased nearly a year ago, yields 
 excellent negatives without any sign of de- 
 terioration. 
 
 When using slow orthochromatic 
 plates, such as the Ilford Chro- 
 matic and the Cramer Iso. Med., ample ex- 
 posure is required. For, while they seem to 
 possess great latitude as far as over-exposure 
 is concerned, the evil effects of under-exposure 
 are far more marked than is the case with 
 ordinal^ plates. In my experience with these 
 two makes not one plate has been over- 
 exposed, although, as I thought, ample ex- 
 posure was always given. The Cadett Spec- 
 trum plate, as is natural with a very fast 
 plate, has not so great latitude, and care 
 must also be taken not to over-expose. As a 
 guide to the exposure required, if we take the 
 typical case of an ordinary landscape on a 
 bright day in summer, at three o'clock in the 
 afternoon, and if the lens be stopped to f-ii, 
 the Ilford Chromatic would require an ex- 
 posure of at least iV second, the Cramer Iso. 
 Med, 1^2 second, the Cramer Iso. Inst. -3V 
 second, and the Cadett Spectrum ^^- to j^jj 
 second, depending on the speed number of the 
 emulsion. If a yellow screen were used these 
 exposures would be increased four or five 
 times, and the slow plates could not be used 
 ^or instantaneous work, even with an aperture 
 of f-8. ^ 
 
 —40— 
 
 \ 
 
IS 
 
 Dark Room '^''^ developing light that 
 . , j^ >*afe to use in working orlho- 
 
 i^ISfntS chromatic plates depends, of 
 
 course, on the plate. Plates that are insensi- 
 tive to red can be worked in a deep ruby light 
 without fear of fog, but plates sensitive to red 
 can not be safely exposed to such a light. 
 For plates of the former class, of which the 
 Ilford and Cramer are examples, the regular 
 ruby and orange glass may be used, with the 
 illuminant turned down low, and the plates 
 exposed to the direct rays as little as possible 
 during the early stages of development ; 
 when development is nearing completion, 
 however, the light may be turned up to ex- 
 amine progress without danger of fogging the 
 plate. For plates of the latter class, of which 
 the Cadett Spectrum is an example, develop- 
 ment will either have to be conducted in 
 darkness, or with a light which transmits a 
 color to which the plate is insensitive. Cap- 
 or tain Abney recommends two 
 
 _ , ^ gelatine films, formed from dry 
 
 l^IS^ntS plates fixed and washed, one 
 
 stained deeply with methyl violet, the other 
 with brilliant yellow, and bound together film 
 to film with lantern slide binding strips. The 
 absorption spectra of methyl violet and 
 aurantia, which is similar to brilliant yellow, 
 are shown in Fig. 2, and it will be observed 
 that, while methyl violet transmits a narrow 
 band in the extreme red and some blue and 
 violet, aurantia transmits everything but blue 
 and violet. If the two are combined the 
 
 —41— 
 
sf 
 
 result W.1I be. as shown in the lower diagram v 
 to transmit only the extreme red. and snch a 
 combmat.on. if carefully used, should be safe 
 w.th the Spectrum plates. Sanger Shepherd 
 recommends three films, of methyl violet 
 naphthol yellow, and aurantia. and for a com- 
 bination still more safe naphthol yellow 
 aurantia. brilliant green, and fuchsm. The 
 Cadett safe light, which can be purchased 
 ready to use, will probably prove mo.t suitable 
 for amateur's use, and is. I believe, composed 
 of a film sta.ned with methyl violet and two 
 colored glasses, yellow and yellow green 
 Even when usmg these safe lights it would do 
 "o harn, to keep the tray covered, during de- 
 velopment, as much a« possible. 
 
 Developers ^^® developers to be used 
 . ^.«. ^°'' ^''thochromatic plates do 
 
 not differ materially from those ordinarily 
 employed. In fact any developer suitable 
 tor an ordinary plate can be used on an 
 orthochromatic plate. There is one point to 
 be guarded against, however, when working 
 with slow plates such as the Ilford and 
 Cramer Medium, and that is to use only 
 about one half the usual quantity of the 
 developing agent or reducer, pyro, metol, 
 e.konogen, or whatever is used, with the 
 usual quantity of alkali, and to make up the 
 Excess of ''^'*"^« with water. It will be 
 Contrast ^"""'^ *^^^ '^ ^ developer of full 
 
 the negative will be too dense and contain 
 
 —42— 
 
too much contrast to give harmonious resuUs. 
 This peculiarity, the great density giving 
 powers of orthochroriiatic plates, should be 
 of great advantage for any subject whose 
 contrasts it is wished to increase, for instance 
 a landscape flatly lighted, or on a cloudy day. 
 For such an effect the proportion of develop, 
 ing agent might be increased with advantage. 
 Very fast plates, such as the Cadett Spec- 
 trum, do not require tins precaution and in 
 fact the developers for these plates call for a 
 larger proportion of reducer, or rather for a 
 smaller proportion of alkali. The object of 
 this, no doubt, is to prevent chemical fog 
 which is more likely to occur with fast plates, 
 but in my experience I had no difficulty with 
 fog, and the development proceeds in exactly 
 the same manner, only more slowly, as r ith 
 ordinary plates. 
 
 Necessity for ^" ^^^"^ ^^^ manipulation of 
 c . orthochromatic plates differs 
 
 cspenence only in the points mentioned 
 from that of ordinary plates and no difficulty 
 should be experienced in their successful 
 handling. It must be remembered, however, 
 that any change in materials or methods in 
 photography requires experience to become 
 familiar with the new conditions imposed, 
 and hence that perfect results should not 
 be expected to be attained with the first 
 box of plates. 
 
 —43- 
 
Conclusion '" "•""cl'-sion I can only hope 
 
 we'la. th. r •"'"',' '""'' ""deeded, as 
 wej a. the hm.ts of a single lecture allow 
 
 '" "'f'"^ you familiar with the n,ain po „T,' 
 about orthochro«,ati.m and the correcret 
 denng of color values. 1 ,ru„ alto T. 
 
 :::: ::- r -''"' -"" »■■- ---i,?: 
 ;-.ou „ii, ...:f'.:-'j^z,:::z::: 
 
 the ordinary plate, and will ,h„s l,as,e„The 
 day when its faulty record win be repTa ed 
 
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 given bv the orthochromatic plate. 
 
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The same careful attention in all detail, it 
 given to the other Brands of Plates manufac- 
 tured by Messrs. Cadett & Neall, Limited, 
 Ashtead, Surrey, England, and the Trade can 
 be supplied by 
 
 MESSRS. EAKINS & FERRIS, 
 Sole Importers, 
 
 Toronto, Canada. 
 
 Ordinary Plates 
 Professional Plates 
 Special Rapid Plates 
 Lightning Plates 
 Spectrum Plates 
 Safe Lights 
 Screens 
 
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