Wilson's cyclopedic photography: a complete handbook of the terms, processes, formulae and appliances available in photography, arranged in cyclopedic form for ready reference (1894)
Wilson, Edward L. (Edward Livingston), 1838-1903 · New York, E.L. Wilson · leaf 338
SILH SHUT the wall, or by means of the instrument the centre. But many other forms are in called a pantagraph. The term is also now market, some of which expose the margins of the picture too short a time. (See .or- | applied to photographs taken for the pur- ton’s Cloud- Catcher.) pose of… … Shutters, Exposure. The introduction Silhouette Photograph. Two black back- of very rapid plates has necessitated the de- grounds, made of cloth or of velvet, one white vising of means by which the exposure may background, and a piece of black cloth, be controlled with certainty, whether it be the…
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