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RECREATION. 



they take more than one subject on any- 

 one day. Experience has taught them that 

 this can not be done successfully; as each 

 subject is governed by conditions that do 

 not affect any two points alike; and it is 

 by carefully observing these conditions 

 that the good results are obtained. 



One of these men said to me last summer, 

 when showing me a negative he had just 

 made of the falls: "There, isn't that a 

 beauty? Notice all the detail and how 

 ' wet ' the water looks. I have made many 

 exposures on the falls, but this is the first 

 one that comes up to my idea of what a 

 first class negative should be." 



It was indeed a prize, and a rich reward 

 for the untiring efforts he had made. 



DONT'S FOR AMATEURS. ' 



Don't tone., too warm, if using a com- 

 bined toning and fixing bath. Keep it at 

 about 55 degrees, by using ice. Prints tone 

 slower thus, but are more permanent. 



Don't fail to use the extra fixing bath 

 in connection with the combined toning 

 bath; as it insures more permanent prints. 



Don't use an old hypo bath, for plates 

 or paper. It is bound to stain. Make fresh 

 each time. Hypo is cheap. 



Don't tone more prints at one time than 

 you can handle and examine, frequently. 



Don't try to tone several dozen 4x5s in 

 8 ounces combined toning solution. It 

 won't work. Use plenty of solution and 

 figure in this manner — viz. : 8 ounces con- 

 tain about 1 grain of gold, which should 

 tone not more than 18 4x5 prints. 



Don't — if you make your own developer 

 — use too much alkali. It makes the deox- 

 idizing agent too energetic and clogs up 

 the shadows too soon. 



Don't forget that sulphite of soda is add- 

 ed to the developer to regulate the color of 

 the negative, which would be very yellow 

 without it. 



Don't forget that hypo is the most likely 

 cause of prints yellowing, and it should 

 therefore be thoroughly eliminated by fre- 

 quent changes of fresh water. Or, you can 

 keep them i l / 2 hours in running water; 

 keeping the prints well separated, or they 

 will settle to the bottom of the tray and the 

 water will flow over them. 



Don't — unless you want yellow prints — 

 wash over night. 



Don't dip your hands in the hypo and 

 then in the toning dish. The ingredients 

 don't combine. 



Don't hurry your work and expect su- 

 perior results. He who makes haste slow- 

 ly gets the best results, as a general rule. 

 Everything takes time and work should 

 not be rushed through, just to see how it 

 looks. G. A. C. 



A NOVEL WASHING BATH. 



A novel and, at the same time, a perfect 

 method of washing prints, is to take an or- 

 dinary wash basin, or better still a dish pan 

 about 14 inches in diameter; punch a hole 

 in the side, Y^ inch from the bottom; then 

 through the hole and bent to conform with 

 the inside of the dish, insert a piece of tube, 

 which has been closed up at the end, and 

 drilled full of holes the size of a darning 

 needle. Solder this tube on the outside, 

 making a water tight joint. Now punch a 

 row of holes, 1 inch from the top and l /& 

 inch in diameter. These holes should be 

 punched from the inside, leaving a smooth 

 surface; the burr being on the outside. 

 The idea is to give a circular motion to the 

 prints. When finished fasten a piece of 

 rubber tubing to the end of the tube pass- 

 ing in at the bottom, and connect with a 

 spigot. Turn on the water and when the 

 dish is full put in the prints to be washed. 

 The water flows in below and out above 

 through the holes in the side; thus avoid- 

 ing the trouble of watching the dish. No 

 prints can float out because the dish never 

 gets full. 



Don't turn on too great a stream; just 

 enough to keep the prints in motion. 



By having the dish deep enough, and by 

 making a metal rack, plates may be placed 

 in it and washed, thoroughly, in half an 

 hour. The whole outfit should not cost 

 more than 50 cents; is easily made and if 

 painted with asphaltum, occasionally, will 

 last a lifetime. C. 



Enclosed find photo taken by lamp light, 

 according to directions given in a previous 

 issue of Recreation. I want to say right 

 here that I have gotten more actual money 

 value from Recreation than from any 

 other paper I ever read. 



This picture was made with a pocket 

 kodak. I used 2 lamps — one above and one 

 below and to right of camera. Time of 

 exposure 8 minutes. 



There is one thing to be made a special 

 note of, in this picture, one which any 

 woman will do well to remember, when 

 sitting for a photo. The lady kept her 

 mouth shut for 8 consecutive minutes, and 

 was not asleep either. 



R. P. Schermerhorn. 



The picture is good, considering the con- 

 ditions under which it was made, but is 

 not good enough to reproduce. — Editor. 



Getting subscriptions for Recreation is 

 easy. The magazine does its own talking. 

 Turn to the premium list, on page xlviii., 

 and see what you can get by sending in a 

 club. 



