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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1914 (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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ments that short focus is not necessarily greater depththan long focus. When the long focus is the means of puttingthe camera away from the object there is greater depth in thething photographed. Indeed, it is a moot question as to justhow much we should claim great depth for short focus lensand lesser depth for long focus. The trouble is in mostcases that the comparison is not made as it should be on thesame size image on the plate, and therein hangs a very vitalpoint. If one is to fill the plate that effect is not well obtainedby a short focus near to the clustering swarm because a largepart of it will be out of focus. As, for example, with the No. 9 Protar there is not onlythis trouble of out of focus, but the greater danger of gettingstung in using the whole lens. If only the half lens is usedthe distance is sufficient to get the whole thing into focus withclear opening. If the whole lens is used one has to stop thelens down so much in order to get all into focus that there is 258
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THE BEES LEAVING THE EXCELSIOR ANDGOING INTO THE HIVING HIVE. EDWARD F. BIGELOW. not much speed left and the movement of the bees will makea blur. When I hear the call, The bees are swarming, the firstthing I do is to unscrew the rear combination of that Protar.It is a time when distance not only lends enchantment to theview but safety as well. Perhaps some camera friend will at once arise up and say,Then why dont you use a telephoto. That is, indeed, veryadvantageous on some occasions. When the swarm is wellsettled in a cluster far up on a tree the telephoto is the properthing to use and by waiting perhaps an hour after everythingis at rest the bees hang so perfectly still that three or fourseconds can be given for the telephoto. The so-called artisticphotographer who unscrews his rear lens to throw his lensout of focus, or uses what is called the soft lens, has no placein photographing a swarm of honeybees. The beauty comesin the detail. The photograph that does not show the mark-in

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