Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887, author, Contained in (work): Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887. Manual of photography · London ; Glasgow : Richard Griffin and Company · leaf 136
122 PBACTICE OE PHOTOGBAPHY. It is also important that arrangements should be made to cut off from the lens all light proceeding from extraneous objects : this is best effected by the mode adopted by M. Claudet. The camera is placed, as shown in section, fig. 60, within an arrangement of curtains… … can maintain a steady position without this, the result is gene- rally the most satisfactory, the “ rest ” not unfrequently giving
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