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The Negative Was Rejected: Gauge length of a 200 mm (8 in.) specimen, as indicated by scribe scratches marked on the specimen before testing, a retest is to be allowed.
d Rejected Material In the event that any set of test specimens fails to meet the requirements, the material from which such specimens have been taken are to be rejected and the required markings withheld or obliterated.
With the perfection of the collodion process this sys-?m was put to use. Thomas Skaife devised a miniature imera with an f/2.2 lens in 1858 for plates one-inch pare. They were enlarged by hand: the negative was rejected to the desired size, and the image was traced, i 1859 Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for cotland, during a visit to Russia made stereoscopic neg-tives: a modern print from a street scene in Novgorod i astounding in its directness, sense of presence, and nage quality.
5. Never be too proud to reshoot a poor negative. Did you make an error in exposure? Did your tripod slip and cause a fuzzy negative? Or did you make one of the other dozens of errors which can almost but not quite ruin a negative? If so, do not try to cover up by struggling with the negative by means of darkroom trickery, but instead shoot the picture over again if that is at all possible. To reshoot is to confess a measure of failure to "your client, of course, but you can make up for that by going all-out for a masterpiece on your second try. |
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