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IN THE DARK.
Recent Developments in Photography.
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The recent publication of a photograph taken in what should call total darkness marks the conclusion of the first stage in a course of experiments extend- ing over many years. The details of this research are not light read- ing, but some of the salient points are of general interest, and Can easily be comprehended.
Most of us know that there are invisible as well as visible ruys, and from time to time those at the red end of the spectrum the {"infra-red" ones are talked about as if they were an entirely new discovery. As a matter of fact the photographing of these rays has been attempted off and on, and with some success, for many years, the late Sir William Abney having penetrated into the infra-red re- gion for a considerable distance about half a century ago. It was marvellous that he should have got as far as he did with the materiais at his disposal, and for a long time no appreciable advance upon his. results was recorded.
Latter-day research has disclos-
ed the fact that certain dyes, when added to the sensitive coating of
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Death of Miss Maria de Jesus.
FUNERAL TO-DAY.
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NAKED FRESHMEN.
Mad Adelaide "Varsity Students.
Engineering students at the Ade- laide University had a joyful ray when they initiated about a dozen freshmen.
It culminated in a noisy proces-
The death occurred last night, after a long illness, of Miss Mariasion through the main city streets'
Augusta Montalto de Jesus, a young member of a well-known Portuguese family, for many years connected with Hong Kong and Macas.
The young lady, who passed away at the residence of her mother, 14 Conduit Road, was the third daugh- J. Montalto de ter of the late Mr. Jessis, and Mrs. Leonor Montalto de Her death is mourned by Jesus, three brothers, three sisters, and two brothers-in-law in Hong Kong, besides other relatives in Macao and Shanghai, with whom a large circle of friends will sympathise.
The funeral will start from the Roman Catholic Cathedral at 4 p.m., today, and will pass the Monument at 5.30..
a photographic plate, render itmercial, value. still more sensitive, particularly to rays which
previously hardly affected it at all. That.is the basis of what is called "orthochromat-
as the picturegoers were on their way home. Bearing yokes and clad only in shorts and singlets. the freshmen hauled a lorry inden. with 30 undergraduates.
That was all the public saw, but a great deal more went on in the engineering block at the Uni- versity.
It is not often that an outsider
mony.
is admitted to a University rag. but an inquisitive Press man was at the cere- allowed to look on
There was an awful din in the building. Through semi-darkness the visitor was guided to the foot of a staircase up and down which
the naked candidates were being pursued by undergraduates, "just ns a preliminary."
Showered With. Ice Water, Then they were locked in a room and one was brought out blindfold-! may have n material, if not com-ed, showered with icy water, then whirled away on a small truck It is appropriate that while this covered with ice.
The truck was drawn past omin- Investigation of the invisible infra- red rays has been proceeding pro-ously whirring electric motors and gress should also have been made howling machines to a darkened ism", because it enables a photo-in respect to photography with in-room, where the bandage was re-
visible light of, from the photo- moved from the candidate's eyes. grapher to obtain, for instance, a
Then the freshman was held in satisfactory rendering of a daffodil graphic standpoint, the feeblest
description. Of late years some front of a fan blowing out gener- which, with an ordinary non-
extremely rapid
photographleous quantities of water and flour. colour-sensitive plate, would come out nearly, if not quite black. For lenses, having all the essential cor- When nicely powdered he was a good many years past we have rections for good performance, dropped through a tiny manhole had plates which are not only have been manufactured by lead-in a small underground chamber orthochromatic-i.e., sensitive to ing opticians. All these have been 5 ft. 6 in. deep. The manhole was yellow and green--but panchre-out-distanced by the new Dalimey then covered, and the candidate matic-namely, sensitive, more or er kinematograph lens working at was left to ruminate for a few min lesa, to all the colours of the the enormous aperture of fo.99, utes, standing in water almost up which means that the effective to his knees. When his eyes be diameter of the lens is actually a came accustomed to the darkness trifle wider
the than
pic he could see another manhole a few Some panchromatic plates pene ture. Such an achievement is feet away. Groping his way to it, trate a fair distance into the infra- hardly practicable except with the he was hoisted out of the chamber red region, but not so far as those tiny images made on the new "sub-by a yelling mob and stretched in
with gensitised
di-, standard" cine-film, since, apart a concrete slab, over which stood a specially cyanine, a dye with which very re- from cost, a quarter-plate camera young man armed with a big knife. markable results have been attain- fitted with a lens between four and Again the candidate was blind- ed. Experiments with di-cyanine, five inches in diameter would be folded, and with a cry of warning and a still newer sensitiser called rather a monstrosity. But for the executioner plunged a piece of neocyanine, have been continued home kinematography on very dull ice on to the quivering throat of until, as noted above, objects in a days, or indoors, such an aperture his victim and drew it from ear to dark room have been photographed as that now attained is patently ear. fairly successfully with an ex-, useful, and advantage will doubt-
visible spectrum.
Kinematographic Value.
Sluice Gates Opened.
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posure of forty-eight hours. Such less be taken of it also for filming The bandage was whipped off a result has not, of course, any im- birds and other wild animals in again and the candidate was seated mediate practical value, but, is of woods and other dim nooks and in a rope hoist and lowered half- great scientific interest, and there corners in which any but time ex- way into a deep olt, partly filled Overhead huge is very little doubt that in due posures have hitherto been imprac-, with water. course the possibilities indicated, ticable-Manchester Guardian.
electric pump was whining. Just when he was wondering if he was expected to jump into the pit a sluice gate was opened in a flume about level with his head, and out gushed a stream of water about 31 ft. wide and a foot deep.
Choking and spluttering. freshman was lifted out branded
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The victims of the initiation ceremony entered into the spirit of the proceedings with seeming en- thusiasm, and there was no display of nature on either side.
GUNBOAT CO-OPERATING.
Shanghai, Yesterday,
An official message from Han- kow states that seven gunboats have concentrated at Yochow at: the northern end of Poyang Lake to co-operate with, the Govern- ment forces against the Kwangsi and "Ironside" invaders, who are reported to be advancing from. Changsha Reuter.
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