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THERE are now so many guides for beginners in photography that the first question with regard to a new one is as to the reason for its production. It is fitting that the author, who dates from H.M.S. Royal Oak, Mediterranean, should give a chapter on shipboard photography and hints for work abroad. This is evidently a description of the results of experience, and as such is a valuable record. It is, however, rather straining matters to suggest that differences of exposures of six, or even twenty, per cent, would make an appreciable difference in the result, even if it were possible to obtain plates of a uniformity of sensitiveness that would render such variations possible. The desirability of carrying plates rather than films is insisted on “for several reasons”; they can be obtained at almost any port of call, and on the whole are more trustworthy and more easy to work. The methods of extemporising a dark room on board ship are clearly described, and the apparatus in general and water supply are practically considered.
The Principles of Simple Photography.
By F. W. Sparrow Pp. 130. (London: Hazell, Watson and Viney, Ltd., 1902.) Price 1s. net.
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The Principles of Simple Photography . Nature 66, 389 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066389a0
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