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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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tory level supports for the camera are fairly plentiful.First, with regard to subjects, to suggest only a few amongmany that are possible with a single lens, we may attemptarchitecture, exterior and interior; night photographs; earlymorning street scenes taken before the busy world is about;flowers, fruit, sculpture and statuary; woodcarving; ornamen-tal metal work; quaint furniture; machinery, anatomical prep-arations and similar objects of scientific interest; or archaeo-logical and record work. A stone ledge or wall, a broad-topped fence, a flight of steps, and such-like resting places forthe camera offer themselves on every hand to the town-worker;while, with a little ingenuity, substitutes for these may be dis-covered in any country walk. The simplest manner of keeping the camera in alignmentfor the two exposures and of obtaining the correct separation,is to carry a straight strip of cardboard about two inches wide,and as long as the width of the camera, plus 2^ inches. Thus, 104
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IN CAMP. John A. Johnson. if the camera is 4>4 inches wide, the strip should be 4% + 2— Z/^ =.yy^, inches long; 2-)^. inches being marked off with ablack line, as shown by Fig. 3. Having chosen the point ofview and obtained a level of support for the camera, the latter isadjusted till the view in the finder, or on the screen, givessatisfaction. The strip of cardboard is then placed in frontof the camera so as to touch the bottom edge, and is weightedwith a couple of small stones, or other heavy objects, to preventit shifting. For the first exposure the camera should be

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