The American annual of photography . POSSIBILITIES OF TELEPHOTOGRAPHY By FREDERIC FELIX OMETHING has retarded the general adoptionof the telephoto lens in the equipment of thosewho strive to be prepared for every conditionin picture making. Many are to be found withevery other variety of apparatus and aids forphotographic work, but the lens combination that overcomesdistances and difficulties of inaccessibility is, singularly,omitted. Inquiry at some of the stock houses meets with replies in-dicating they are out of touch with the specialty and give it nothought. One manager, in saying he hadn
The American annual of photography . POSSIBILITIES OF TELEPHOTOGRAPHY By FREDERIC FELIX OMETHING has retarded the general adoptionof the telephoto lens in the equipment of thosewho strive to be prepared for every conditionin picture making. Many are to be found withevery other variety of apparatus and aids forphotographic work, but the lens combination that overcomesdistances and difficulties of inaccessibility is, singularly,omitted. Inquiry at some of the stock houses meets with replies in-dicating they are out of touch with the specialty and give it nothought. One manager, in saying he hadnt any informationto offer on the subject, remarked, frankly: *It was a fad andhas died out. Combination lenses will do as well. At one of the photographic clubs a group discussed tele-photography in much the same manner—as a diversion taken 120. THOSE EYES. G. W. Harting. up, some time ago, tor the novelty, but set aside for lack oipractical application. One of the speakers said: It is a lazy mans method—stay-ing in one place and photographing everything around him, atall distances. It hardly justifies an ordinary amateur to keepup an equipment, especially when the good results v^ith a com-bination lens are considered. An objection is the length ofexposure. A heavy, rigid tripod and camera are necessary forextra magnification exposures, and the distance traversed andthe increased length of time required bring an effect of atmo-sphere which is detrimental, unless the air happens to be ex-ceptionally clear. A modern anastigmat lens combination will prove ten tofifty times as rapid as a telephoto lens. Its pictures can beenlarged four to eight times and it will then prove more con-venient and give better results. If one uses 5x7 fast plates,an eight-inch anastigmat lens, stops it down and gives a tenthof a second exposure, a p
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