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Single slant light with blind control as advocated by Inglis\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. In issue 22-5, Part 1 of Dr Reichstein’s article on James Inglis<\/a> appeared. Issue 23-1 continues the story with Part 2.<\/p>\n

Part 2 begins, “The decade of the eighties [1880s] was to be one of extraordinary activity for Inglis. It marked his move to\u00a0Rochester, N.Y., the rise\u00a0and fall of his career in\u00a0manufacturing and was\u00a0the decade in which he\u00a0achieved wide public\u00a0prominence.<\/p>\n

“The basis for the frenetic activity of this period was his interest in the manufacture of dry plates. Throughout the period of the 1870\u2019s there was a great deal of experimentation, mainly in England, to replace the cumbersome wet plate process for producing negatives, which involved coating a glass plate with collodion, sensitizing then exposing and developing it while wet, with a more convenient and portable dry plate process.<\/p>\n

“It was\u00a0a turning point in photographic history. Todd\u2019s\u00a0obituary of 1904, speaking\u00a0of Inglis\u2019 last period in\u00a0Montreal, describes Inglis\u00a0becoming interested in dry\u00a0plates in the early eighties:\u00a0\u201c…he entered upon the\u00a0experimental stage with\u00a0his usual whole-souled energy, and, like many more of\u00a0that time with disastrous financial results\u201d.<\/p>\n

“It is clear\u00a0that by the time Inglis arrived in Rochester, probably\u00a0early in 1883, he was relatively accomplished in the\u00a0technology.” …<\/span><\/p>\n

Members could read all of Irwin Reichstein’s illustrated and foot-noted article in the relevant pdf file on the free members-only DVD (a thumb drive as of April 2025). See MEMBERSHIP above or Membership at right to join. Send Lilianne an email with any questions or suggestions at member@phsc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. In issue 22-5, Part 1 of Dr Reichstein’s article on James Inglis appeared. Issue 23-1 continues the story with Part 2. Part 2 begins, “The decade of the eighties [1880s] was to be one of extraordinary activity for Inglis. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2017,1588,124,5,260,4,348],"class_list":["post-31165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-article","tag-lighting","tag-montreal","tag-photographer","tag-rochester","tag-speaker","tag-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31169,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165\/revisions\/31169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}