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The Uniform Development of Photographic Plates

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IN the issue of NATURE for April 5 we directed attention to the limit of accuracy which is imposed on all methods of photographic photometry, by lack of uniformity in the manufacture, or development of photographic plates. In most cases these errors are much larger than any other errors, and, as the photographic method of photometry is so much used at present, it is very desirable that these errors should be removed.

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DOBSON, G., HARRISON, D. The Uniform Development of Photographic Plates. Nature 114, 752 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114752b0

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