Outing . the ordinary traveling valise, are perhapsthe most convenient style for photograph-ing instantaneously when a regular tripodcamera cannot well be used. Their realuse, moreover, is rarely suspected bypassing crowds intent on individual af-fairs, and thus they enable the amateurto secure many interesting street scenes,natural groups, etc., which would other-wise be quite out of the question. Thesecameras vary in price from $50 to $, too, should possess a finder —though concealed—and the best of may be made to carry either plate 224 OUTING FOR holders or a
Outing . the ordinary traveling valise, are perhapsthe most convenient style for photograph-ing instantaneously when a regular tripodcamera cannot well be used. Their realuse, moreover, is rarely suspected bypassing crowds intent on individual af-fairs, and thus they enable the amateurto secure many interesting street scenes,natural groups, etc., which would other-wise be quite out of the question. Thesecameras vary in price from $50 to $, too, should possess a finder —though concealed—and the best of may be made to carry either plate 224 OUTING FOR holders or a roll holderwith twenty-four or forty-eight exposures of lens may be adjustedto what is termed a fixed focus, taking ad-vantage of that qualityo f photographic objec-tives which enables themto depict distinctly allimages which are beyonda certain limit in a view ;but it is better to havea lever attachment ad-justed to the lens or theplate holder, so that aquick focus may easily beobtained to suit the dis-tance of individual sub-jects by merely movingit to the proper mark ona plate which has thevarious distances indi-cated on it. The size of returningthese cameras is naturallylimited to the smaller dimensions, thosemaking photographs four by five inchesbeing, perhaps, the commonest and mostconvenient. They are indispensable whenreal detective pictures are desired, or formaking photographs of incidents andscenes where no time is allowed longerthan merely to press the button whichreleases the instantaneous shutter. Theyare especially adapted, therefore, for useon th
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