The American annual of photography . picture of a chap turning a backsomersault and only got back about ten feet. He was used toshooting a reflex and as soon as the athlete started over heblazed away with the camera, trusting that the shutter-lagwould give the jumper time to get up to a point where heturned and where there would be less motion. Naturally thelens shutter, which he had only wound to 1/600 and that onlyten feet away, with the athlete going at greatest speed as heleft the ground, did not stop motion by any means. He wentaround grinding his teeth until he got a letter from the make
The American annual of photography . picture of a chap turning a backsomersault and only got back about ten feet. He was used toshooting a reflex and as soon as the athlete started over heblazed away with the camera, trusting that the shutter-lagwould give the jumper time to get up to a point where heturned and where there would be less motion. Naturally thelens shutter, which he had only wound to 1/600 and that onlyten feet away, with the athlete going at greatest speed as heleft the ground, did not stop motion by any means. He wentaround grinding his teeth until he got a letter from the makersreminding him of what he had done. In the meantime hewrote a letter to the Ambrotype Age and in the next issueit appeared in full glory. Had he kept still about it, no onewould have ever known how ignorant he was, but he publishedhis shame broadcast. After the diagnosis comes the remedy. If you have a cameraand dont want to know anything about it, theoretically, verywell. But dont for the sake of suffering humanity write arti- 150. THE WASHINGTON MONUMENTON A WINTERS NIGHT. ERNEST L. CRANDALL. 151 cles about it to the magazines. Dont uncover your mentalnakedness. If you are content to press a button do so, but donot—pray, do not, try to tell anyone that you can do half-tone work with your kodak. Remember what Artemus Wardsaid, There is them that larf at these things, but to me theymerits rebooks and frowns. The limits of the kodak type of hand-camera are due almostentirely to the fact that it cannot be focussed. Of course, witha lens of short focal length, or reasonably small aperture, onecan get so that they can guess close enough, but the use of 4/5lenses of 5 to 6 inches length is impossible (Fusticus to thecontrary, notwithstanding) and the 6/3 lens of 5 inches focusis not easy to use at short distances. Of course, you can getsomething but you should be able to get the type of image thatcan be enlarged to a reasonable size, every time. The Eastman Company have recently
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