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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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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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ld express his best in photographic science and art. The popularity of the soft-focus lens, once confined to theprofessional or advanced amateur-photographer, is nowarousing the interest of the average camerist to such an extentthat a word on the subject may be of value. Without a doubt,the soft-focus lens has come to stay. By its intelligent use,the worker can obtain effects that cannot be had in any-otherway without manipulation of a character too technical for.theaverage camerist to attempt. The earlier types of soft-fociis^i.^lenses were so constructed that even the professional photog-rapher was compelled to make a special study of its use; buttoday such strides have been made by several manufacturers,that a soft-focus lens requires no more study than a high-grade anastigmat in order to obtain results. Of course,whether these results meet the individual requirements of thecamerist is a question that he alone can determine. Paradoxical as it may seem, a soft-focus lens requires 22
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AN OLD FENCE. L. D. SWEET. 23 careful focusing. That is, there is a point where the soft-ness or diffusion reaches its most pleasing effect withoutbecoming too fuzzy or positively out of focus in appearance.When soft-focus lenses were first placed upon the market,many photographers were unable to understand why theycould not obtain the same effect by simply putting theiranastigmat lenses sHghtly out of focus. At first glance, itmight appear to the novice that there was no difference; butsubsequent study and critical inspection revealed the factthat a soft-focus lens produced a roundness and atmosphericquality that was not paralleled by the out-of-focus anastig-mat. Naturally, there was then, and is now, considerablediscussion with regard to this point; but the fact remainsthat the soft-focus has come to make a long stay, and weshall have to accept it as an important link in the chain ofphotographic apparatus upon which we depend to help usexpress ourselves pictorially. Sometimes, it m

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