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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1917 (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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o satisfyingly por-trayed in the long and narrow shape which please us most. There is another reason, too. I wasnt going to speak of it.for it seems a shame to find any fiaws in a thing you have just Figure 1. praised for full a thousand words! Nevertheless, it must beadmitted that any sort of a panoram made with a revolvingcamera or lens, does distort the facts of nature. You cantget away from it—a panoram distorts straight lines and makesthem into curves. If you want to see how much, make a ver-tical panoram picture of a tall building from a close view-point and youll find that Pisa and her leaning tower are allout of class! But—what you dont see cannot scare you and what youdont feel doesnt hurt you, as the Irishman said to the visitorwho exclaimed in wonder at his allowing his wife to beat himwith the feather duster. And so the straight lines made intocurves in the panoram of a water scene dont bother our eyes—^first because there are so few straight lines in the average 14^
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147 water scene, and second, because they are just as pretty andattractive and natural when turned into a curve. Proof ? Look at the exhibits ! I dare say the left hand edgeof the path which is the edge of the lake in which the swansand ducks are about to disport themselves (Figure i) is asstraight in nature as the right hand edge of the path which isthe edge of the hill. But does it appear any less attractive ornatural that it is curved in the picture ? It does not. But a picture of a street, which we know is straight, is awk-ward when it comes out a curve, or a building which we knowis square, if it comes out shaped like a plum! So the otherreason water scenes are particularly good subjects for thepanoram is that distortion—a necessary evil in the instrumentwhich wipes the image on a curved film—fails to show. So to my list—and your list too—let us add this. We willuse Kodaks for snapshots, and portrait cameras for portraits.We will use speed cameras for speed work and telep

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