The American annual of photography . AN EARLYMORNING LIGHT. A. W. WALBURN. i6o. THE REFLEX CAMERA FORPORTRAITURE By W. S. CROLLY. ROHIBITIVE prices and over-exploitation ofspeed features have militated against the reflexcameras general adoption for the more seriousbusiness of portraiture. Evidences are notlacking, however, that it is slov^ly making head-v^ay as a studio proposition. At the Rochester convention, in1909, a prize for the most useful photographic appliance wasawarded the inventor of a reflect-attachment adapted to theordinary studio box. But in cold fact the reflecting camera is n
The American annual of photography . AN EARLYMORNING LIGHT. A. W. WALBURN. i6o. THE REFLEX CAMERA FORPORTRAITURE By W. S. CROLLY. ROHIBITIVE prices and over-exploitation ofspeed features have militated against the reflexcameras general adoption for the more seriousbusiness of portraiture. Evidences are notlacking, however, that it is slov^ly making head-v^ay as a studio proposition. At the Rochester convention, in1909, a prize for the most useful photographic appliance wasawarded the inventor of a reflect-attachment adapted to theordinary studio box. But in cold fact the reflecting camera is not the best instru-ment for photographing rapidly moving objects at shiftingdistances. The best tool for that purpose is the one suggestedand used by Dimock for his leaping-tarpon pictures; a smallordinary camera fitted with a fast, rather short focus lens,speed shutter, and a rack and pinion focusing movementblocked between infinity and twenty-five feet, with one or twoclicking locks for intermediate distances. Such a camera canbe used at eye level with a direct view finder
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