Free Photography Books (.pdfs)Photography in America 1922Panama Canal Autochromes 1913 California the Beautiful 1911 Photographing Old England 1910 American Photography 1907 Hunting With Gun & Kodak 1906 Tom Wedgwood, 1st Photog 1903 Photography as Fine Art 1901 Canada With A Kodak 1893 Quarter Century in Photography 1887 Photographic Art 1856 Art of Photography 1854 Free Photo Instruction BooksAmateur Photography 1911Modern Photography 1908 The Book of Photography 1907 The Complete Photographer 1906 Camera & Darkroom 1904 Dictionary of Photography 1902 Instruction in Photography 1900 Photography in a Nutshell 1898 Sunlight & Shadow 1897 Army Manual of Photography 1896 Dictionary of Photography 1896 Adventure in Photography 1893 The Studio 1891 Wilson's Photographics 1881 Photographic Manipulation 1858 Manual of Photography Hunt 1854 Photography Hunt & Humphrey 1852 Guide to Photography 1845 Free Online Camera BooksThe Camera Man 1916Lure of the Camera 1914 Camera Craft 1910 Hand Camera Techniques 1901 Free Online Photo Exposure BooksThe Watkins Manual 1919Secret of Exposure 1915 Free Photo Compsition BooksComposition in Photography 1920Free Portrait Photography BooksPortrait Photography 1907Free Landscape Photo BooksLandscape Photography 1914Landscape Photography 1921 Landscape Photography 1888 Free Nature Photography BooksNature & The Camera 1902In Nature's Image 1898 Naturalistic Photography 1890 Free Photo Painting BooksHow to Paint Photographs 1871Colouring Photographs 1861 Free Color Photography BooksPractical Color Photography 1922Photography in Colors 1915 3-Color Photography 1904 Free Photo Darkroom BooksTheory of Development 1922Photographic Printing 1887 Printing Photos on Paper 1856 Free Photo Chemistry BooksPhotographic Developers 1918Agfa Photo Formulae 1910 Chemistry of Photography 1901 Chemistry of Photography 1892 Photographic Chemistry 1861 Light in Chemical Reactions 1854 Free Plate Photography BooksDry Plate Making 1886Modern Dry Plates 1881 Collodio-Albumen Process 1866 Dry Collodion Process 1857 Free Aerial Photography BooksAirplane Photography 1920Free Microscope Photo BooksMicroscope Photography 1891Micro-Photography 1883 Online Book Search Engines |
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The New York Times, July 1, 1889 p. 8:GOOD NEWS FOR AMATEURS.PHOTOGRAPHERS SOON TO EXPERIMENT WITH A NEW FILM.Amateur photographers are greatly delighted with the news that in a few days a perfectly transparent gelatine emulsion film, sufficiently flexible to use in a roll holder, will soon be placed on the market by the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company, the pioneers in the film discoveries. For some time, Mr. Reichenbach, the chemist of the company, has been experimenting with different preparations, having celluloid as a basis, trying to obtain a base for the emulsion which would be flexible and transparent and could be made in sheets or rolls of any size. He has succeeded admirably. The new film is as clear as crystal, according to expert examiners, retains the emulsion well, and can be made in rolls of 100 feet in length and from one-quarter of an inch to thirty or more inches in width. The celluloid base is four-one thousandths of an inch in thickness, and the gelatine film one-two thousandths of an inch. The celluloid is not affected by the sun in printing nor by the chemicals used in developing. Time will be the test of the keeping qualities of the transparent film. It now certainly looks as if the celluloid films, or films of some other composition, will eventually supersede glass as a support for gelatine emulsions. The Rochester Democrat, in commenting upon the films, says: "As a scientific discovery the new transparent support for sensitive gelatine must take first rank. Its applications to astronomical photography, which is just beginning to make great additions to our knowledge of the heavens, will add facilities hitherto undreamed of. Think of depicting a zone of the heavens on a single roll of sensitive gelatine, then rolling it up like the scrolls of ancient libraries for future reference. Such a process would map the heavens to some purpose. One photographic telescope could perhaps cover many degrees in a single night, the fields being in consecutive order and joined accordingly. With such an appliance a few telescopes could complete the work of mapping the heavens in a comparatively short space of time. The celluloid support is sufficiently unyielding to admit of accurate measurements of photographed objects." The testing of the new films will give lots of amusement during the Summer months, and the picture takers will have a chance to try them on their Summer vacations. Mr. G.D. Milburn will in a short time give a demonstration of the new celluloid flexible films at the rooms of the Society of Amateur Photographers. Charles Stuart Welles will give his lantern slide exhibition of views of the Nile at several watering places this summer. |
TIME Magazine, January 18, 1954, p. 84: BUSINESS ABROAD: Camera Comeback Few cameras have greater appeal to shutterbugs around the world than Germany's famed Zeiss Contax. But Zeiss has had its troubles making it. At war's end, it lost its huge plant at Jena, along with 288 of its key designers and scientists, to the Russians; on top of that, its Contax patents expired, and competitors flooded the market with imitations. Last week, after nine years of development work, Zeiss brought out a new camera with which it hopes to regain leadership in the high-quality candid-camera market. From its $2,000,000 plant in Stuttgart the first production models of the Contaflex were shipped to the U.S. A precision instrument with watchwork-size screws and springs as delicate as a snail's antenna, the 35-mm. Contaflex weighs only 18 oz., v. 34˝ oz. for the Rolleiflex and 29˝ oz. for the Leica. It combines the simplicity of operation of the Contax with the easy focusing and accurate view finding of a reflex camera. Price of the new camera with f/2.8 lens: $169. War & Peace. While Zeiss has long been Germany's biggest cameramaker, and is the second largest in the world,* the camera business is only one part of its optical empire. Founded more than 100 years ago by Instrument-maker Carl Zeiss and Physicist Ernst Abbe, it is controlled by the nonprofit Carl Zeiss Foundation, which taps off the earnings of eleven owned or controlled factories "for the furtherance of the precision-instrument industry and science in general." In its time, Zeiss has turned out periscopes for the U-boats of two World Wars, along with gun sights, range finders and other optical aids to destruction. But between the wars, it achieved its greatest name and fame with such peacetime procucts as telescopes, binoculars, microscopes and planetarium equipment. At the top of the combine today-- and responsible for the rebuilding of Zeiss-- are two crusty septuagenarians: Walter Bauersfeld, 72, inventor of the planetarium and a 46-year Zeissman; and Paul Henrichs, 71, who joined the company in 1901 and was longtime boss of its British operations. East & West. Zeiss's postwar comeback started from scratch, after the U.S. occupation forces pulled back from Jena and the Russians took over. But the U.S. had managed to salvage something: it sent a fleet of trucks to Jena and moved 124 top Zeissmen into the Western zone. Under the leadership of Henrichs, they rented floor space in a Heidenheim cigar factory, borrowed tools and lathes, hired a secretary and put her to work at a borrowed typewriter. Within a year, more than 145,000 sq. ft. of space was rented in an empty arms factory in nearby Oberkochen. Operating on loans from German banks, plus $2,000,000 in Marshall Plan money, the plant employed 2,800 by 1952. About a third were experienced Zeiss hands who managed to flee East Germany, both repelled by Communist domination and lured by the memory of their past treatment by Zeiss, which was one of the first companies in the world to provide pensions, free medical care, profit sharing, paid vacations and overtime pay. Last year the Oberkochen plant, plus the new one at Stuttgart, turned out $24 million worth of lenses, surveying instruments, microscopes and other goods, half of which were sold abroad; the Zeiss Ikon (camera) division at Stuttgart, turning out everything from a $15 box camera to the $300 Contax, was able to declare an 8% dividend. *Largest: Eastman Kodak. |
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