The sciopticon manual. Explaining Marcy's new magic lantern, and light, including magic lantern optics, experiments, photographing and coloring slides, etc (1874)
Marcy, L. J · [Philadelphia] Sherman · leaf 24
BCIOPTICON MANUAL. can publishers, Benerman & Wilson. Of course one may successfully operate the Sciopticon, or even excel in photography, without a critical knowledge of lenses; but a very short, connected showing of their properties, with diagrams, will doubtless prove acceptable to many who use… … Fig. 3. in the centre than on the margin. The concave, or dis- persing lenses, 4, 5, and 6, called biconcave, plano-concave, and concavo-convex, are thinner in the centre than on the margin. A line through the centre of these lenses, from side to side, would show the axis of each lens. PFNCIIiS OF…
Lantern projection · Slides (Photography)
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