Marion and Co., author · London W. : Marion and Co., 22 and 23 Soho Square · leaf 46
34 PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PHOTOGRAPHY What we wish to produce thus by the camera is a negative representation of the picture on the ground glass. By the exposure which we have given we have got this negative, so to speak, in potential, — tliat is to … sa}^, there is on the plate what is called a "latent image," that is to say, although there is as yet nothing visible, yet there is such a change of the silver bromide particles that, when the operation of development is performed, the negative will appear. We must further explain what is the…
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