Early Work In Photography
A Text-book For Beginners

Stocking the Darnroom. 81 every three inches with lines at right angles to its edge, for convenience in estimating the sizes of enlargements. A drop-table (shewn in dotted lines) at one end of the room will be found very convenient for cutting paper or filling dark slides, and should be kept scrupulously clean and dry. The other side of the room should be fitted with a long bench 2 ft. 6 in. in width, having a lead-lined sink in its centre. This, by preference, should be countersunk so that its top edge is about an inch below the surface of the benc 1, when not in actual use it can then be covered by a well-fit e top, which will thus provide extra bench room. 1he window just over the sink should have a sliding shutter excluding vouag all light, or filling the room with white light, at will; this will be a great convenience when mixing developers, &c., or while toning. Plenty of shelving should be placed upon eacli side of the window, and it would be advisable to i esei ve one set for chemicals and the other set for stock solutions and oddments. One broad shelf should be placed just below the window, right in front of the sink, for tlie developers and graduates actually in use while at work; tlie centre of this shelf should be reserved for the lantern,which should always be used for development in preference to the constantly changing light of day. 1 , The fixing bath should be placed exactly beneatli the sink, and the whole space occupied by the sink should be boaided