The American annual of photography . Fig. E. A. K. P. EVERSHED. THE TELE-PHOTO LENS AND THEHAND CAMERA By A. R. F. EVERSHED. OUBTLESS there are others in addition to my-self who have been attracted by the possibihtiesof using a moderate power tele-photo combina-tion in conjunction with a hand-camera, butlittle appears to have been published on the sub-ject, and it is with a view of inducing others to follow up thematter that I write these brief 135 As plate manufacturers are now producing plates of great rap-idity, the disadvantage of small apertures which moderate powertele-photo comb
The American annual of photography . Fig. E. A. K. P. EVERSHED. THE TELE-PHOTO LENS AND THEHAND CAMERA By A. R. F. EVERSHED. OUBTLESS there are others in addition to my-self who have been attracted by the possibihtiesof using a moderate power tele-photo combina-tion in conjunction with a hand-camera, butlittle appears to have been published on the sub-ject, and it is with a view of inducing others to follow up thematter that I write these brief 135 As plate manufacturers are now producing plates of great rap-idity, the disadvantage of small apertures which moderate powertele-photo combinations possess may be considered as negligi-ble, and therefore their great advantage in giving pictures ofmore attractive quality in the way of drawing or perspective,and in simplicity of subject, can be fully utiHzed, for the usualpictorial faults which are found in most pictures produced bymeans of the hand-camera are tfie large amount of subjectshown, due to the short focus of the lens and the want of, orrather, the exaggerated perspective, from the wide ange em-braced by such a lens. I grant some say that by enlargingonly a portion of one of these pictures the same result is ob-tained as by using a long focus lens, but practically the effectis quite different. In the prints which accompany these notes, which prints, bythe way, were produced without any idea of using them asillustrations, A—a view of St. Pauls Cathedral from Hunger-ford
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