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Show the more modern acetate negatives available to him. Longer exposure time meant that people who posed before his camera had to remain perfectly still. It is more difficult to hold a smile for long periods of time so his customers often sat expressionless evoking more sedate emotions. The plates he used, probably Kodak brand, were commercially available and measured 5x7 inches or 3 %x51/2 inches. Label 3: To develop the plates, Disfarmer either used a developing tank, like the one you see here, or enameled metal trays. In tray development, each plate is processed in the dark individually then moved between three trays filled with chemicals. In tank development, multiple plates are loaded into a light-tight tank in the dark. The plates are processed together by filling and then emptying the tank for each chemical. Case3 Caption: Kodak developing solution |
