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Chairman: E. W. Barlow, Esq. F.R.A.S. 



. The first meeting of the winter session was held in 



pening Granville Chambers, on November 25th, 1909, 



ee ing o when a lecture was to be given by C. J. Hankinson, 



Esq., who was the Chairman at this time, on 

 " Some aspects of Modern Photography," illustrated by special 

 lantern slides. In the unavoidable absence of the author of this 

 paper, it was read by R. Y. Banks, Esq. 



It referred largely to the illustrations thrown on the screen, 

 which ranged from the work of Robinson and Horsley Hinton down 

 to that of Arbuthnot and Coburn, and pointed out the growing 

 tendency to divide photography into three very sharply defined 

 schools. First, the school which devotes itself to record and 

 scientific work, distinguished by the perfect technique and detail of 

 the results ; secondly, the school of photographers who are the 

 merest amateurs and leave everything but the pressing of the button 

 to other people ; and thirdly, the school of pictorial photography 

 pure and simple, which aims at impressions rather than actuality, 

 and whose work is chiefly distinguished for two things — the sacrifice 

 of actual truth to artistic effect, and the amount of work which is 

 not photographic at all appearing in their prints. 



The lecturer dwelt on the usefulness both of the first and last, 

 but expressed the opinion that coming generations would owe a 

 greater debt to the work of the men who, possessing the knowledge 

 of composition and the value of light and shade, yet reproduced 

 actual scenes as they saw them. A talk on the arrangements for 

 the winter programme followed. 



_ On Feb, 3rd, 1910, an interesting demonstration 



Bromo. Process was giyen by £ Wt Barlow, Esq., on "The 



M dif I* Bromoil process and its Latest Modifications," 



o 1 ica 10ns. ^bout 40 members were present. This process is 

 one of the two twin pigment processes which have come into such 

 prominence and favour during the last few years on account of the 

 variety of effect obtainable and the great possibilities of personal 

 control. The results of both are almost identical, the difference 

 lying in the purely photographic procedure giving the gelatine 

 relief, which is afterwards inked up by means of special brushes and 

 oil pigment akin to lithographic and printing ink. The oil process 

 consists of direct printing under a negative on paper coated with 

 gelatine and sensitised with potassium dichromate, then washing out 

 the dichromate and at the same time swelling the relief. The 

 bromoil process starts from a bromide print or enlargement which is 

 bleached in a special bath and afterwards treated to weak sulphuric 

 acid and hypo solutions. After washing, the print is ready to be 

 inked up as in the case of the oil print. Practically no image can 

 be seen ; the print is laid on a pad of wet blotting paper and the 



