The American annual of photography . boutfive hundred weight, and it speaks volumes for the generosity,or carelessness, of our English railway companies that onlyonce in years of constant travelling was I charged excessluggage. Every view was taken on a 12 x 10 plate, importantviews on three sizes; so the field outfit alone was a reallyserious matter; indeed, the lenses would, of themselves, out-weigh the average modern hand-camera. Then came the post-card craze, and as it gradually grew indimensions it elbowed the larger sized prints out of , publishing houses, with the habit o
The American annual of photography . boutfive hundred weight, and it speaks volumes for the generosity,or carelessness, of our English railway companies that onlyonce in years of constant travelling was I charged excessluggage. Every view was taken on a 12 x 10 plate, importantviews on three sizes; so the field outfit alone was a reallyserious matter; indeed, the lenses would, of themselves, out-weigh the average modern hand-camera. Then came the post-card craze, and as it gradually grew indimensions it elbowed the larger sized prints out of , publishing houses, with the habit of large sized nega-tives clinging to them, found it difficult to break away andadapt themselves to the new departure. Nor can one wonderaltogether at their reluctance to throw over the large sizednegative, with its generous dimensions, and opportunities ofdealing at least reasonably well with any subject that mightarise. One has only to look through the average amateurscollection of prints taken with a post-card size camera to real-. ize how hopelessly impossible a shape it is from a professionalphotographers point of view, and one ceases to wonder thatthe publishing photographer clings to the plate of fair-sizeddimensions, upon which he can accommodate practically anysubject he may require. This, at any rate, is my own practicein spite of every desire to lighten the field burden; so I com-promise in favor of an 8^ x 6^ camera, with a change to63^ X 4^ for purely landscape subjects in districts entailinghard journeys. A couple of years ago I decided on adding Dartmoor to myseries of views, and spent a week in walking over the districtwith a folding hand-camera, rue-sack and vasculum, makinga preliminary survey. It was very obvious that to do thedistrict as it should be done from a moors-mans point of viewwould be out of the question with a fair sized stand camera,unless one confined oneself to those routes and points visitedby tourist conveyances. The real Dartmoor lover loathe
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