. Photographic pastimes : a series of interesting experiments for amateurs for obtaining novel and curious effects with the aid of the camera. RAPHIC PASTIMES. figure and the face motionless, and onlythe arms, the hands, the eyes, the mouth,etc., representing the phenomenon ofmotion. As regards the size of the pictures^they may be made about five centimetreshigh and four centimetres wide ; in this-case, and if an arrangement of ninepictures has been chosen, the wholediameter of the disc will be about15 centimetres. (37.) KALEIDOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHY. The beautiful and varied forms andshapes prese
. Photographic pastimes : a series of interesting experiments for amateurs for obtaining novel and curious effects with the aid of the camera. RAPHIC PASTIMES. figure and the face motionless, and onlythe arms, the hands, the eyes, the mouth,etc., representing the phenomenon ofmotion. As regards the size of the pictures^they may be made about five centimetreshigh and four centimetres wide ; in this-case, and if an arrangement of ninepictures has been chosen, the wholediameter of the disc will be about15 centimetres. (37.) KALEIDOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHY. The beautiful and varied forms andshapes presented to the eye by thekaleidoscope may be permanently re-corded by photography. Such photo-graphs would not only be of great beauty,but also a great help to all those traderswho are interested in novelty and reproduce them directly in thecamera, the following method may beadopted : A quarter-plate camera may KALEIDOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHY. 153 be employed, with its lens. In thegroove of the frame a thick board is fixed,with a hole in the centre, into which thekaleidoscope is introduced. The smallaperture of this instrument, through. Fig. 5S.—Kaleidoscopic Picture. which the images are viewed, is in theinterior of the camera, and the axisof the instrument placed exactly onthe prolongation of the objective; this 154 PHOTOGRAPHIC PASTIMES. latter is inserted in the flange in thefront of a camera of long focus andfixed in that position. The whole isthen placed on an inclined plane, so thatthe light from the sky directly illuminatesthe objects reflected in the mirror of thekaleidoscope. Instead of turning theinstrument to produce the differentarrangements, it is easier to apply someplain glasses upon which some fancifulobjects have been previously regular figures which result aredepicted on the ground glass of thecamera of long focus, and the images arefocussed direct without being portion is, of course, more lightedthan the others. A full exposure
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