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Camera And Darkroom, January 1904

Ol’ Uncle Twee Cat’s Photo Esoterica, Pt. 4:

~ Camera And Darkroom Magazine, January 1904 ~

This here is a magazine I received by post this week or last. It could have been the week before. Quite pricey these days at ten cents per issue. What’s that you said there, you young thing you? This document is almost a hundred and twenty years old and it’s in the public domain now? Oh. Huh. Has my watch stopped? Where am I?

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Hammer Dry Plate – A Short Talk On Negative Making

Ol’ Uncle Twee Cat’s Photo Esoterica, Pt. 3:

Are you making most of your photographs on Hammer Dry Photographic plates? Of course, it goes without saying that most of us are. What’s that you say? Hammer Dry Plates have been discontinued and out of production for nearly one hundred years? Oh. Huh. Well, I guess I’ve got to get out of the house a bit more often, now haven’t I? Well, regardless, here is this short booklet on making negatives from the Hammer Dry Plate company. There is lots of interesting information of development and other such things.

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