Royal Photographic Society Journal archives, free online access

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• Feb 6, 2021

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I read elsewhere that the Royal Photographic Society has posted their journal archive.
This may be have been mentioned here before, not sure.
Here it is:

https://archive.rps.org/archive

"VOLUME THE FIRST." 1854
Cool. A lot of text, few diagrams, several specialized committees, then later, like 1901, few commercial ads, Kodak, etc

The viewer interface has a zoom feature.

 

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Oops, moderator to move to "...Photographic history"?

 

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• Feb 6, 2021

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Thank You! I was not aware of this.




Sad enough at "fullscreen". I find at the pages tested so far the typography too small and I miss a chance for personal setting of scale. The zoom function actually only yields a one-step enlargement that I find too big.

The transcript function is neither good to read and no alternative at technical articles with formulae and tables.

 

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Yes, the viewing is awkward.

The 'loupe" magnification can be adjusted up - and should have been rectangle-shaped...!
And for some reason. it was easier to use on my 14-inch laptop screen than on a 27-inch desktop screen?