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The Application of Vacuum Shadowing to the Examination and Photography of Small Objects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. Krinsely ,
N. Morton  and
J. L. Cutbill
D. Krinsely
Affiliation:
Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.
N. Morton
Affiliation:
Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.
J. L. Cutbill
Affiliation:
Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.
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Abstract

The technique of vacuum shadowing small objects and the advantages of this method in light photography are detailed. The ultra-thin metal-carbon films thus prepared show greater contrast and resoultion than acetate peel replicas.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 101 , Issue 4 , 24 August 1964 , pp. 357 - 359
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1964

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