Abstract
IT is very satisfactory that this annual has survived the war, for it is indispensable wherever photography other than mere routine work is actively carried on. The present volume is the fifth issued since August, 1914, and suffers the most severely of all from the restrictions that necessity has imposed upon us. However, even this is a substantial volume, in which none of the main features that we have been led to expect are omitted. The article by the editor is on “Photographic Definitions,” and these are arranged according to subject in a series of sections, each of which is a kind of running commentary on the subject of its title. The commercial uncertainty of the present time is shown by the comparatively few prices that are given in the advertisements. The most useful section to the student, the “Epitome of Progress,” shows that notable advances have been made in the science of photography, as well as in the prices of materials. We regret that formulæ for the use of metol and glycin as developers are not given. Metol, certainly, is as generally useful as ever it was. Perhaps these were removed because of their “enemy origin,” but they have for some time been “British-made,” and figure in at least two or three places in the advertisement pages.
The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion, 1919.
George E.
Brown
Edited by. Pp. 644. (London: Henry Greenwood and Co., Ltd., 1918.) Price 1s. 6d. net.
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The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion, 1919. Nature 103, 3 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103003a0
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