Identifier: americanannualof28newy (find matches)
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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on is gathered the fashinable set known as theexclusive 400, there is daily to be found in attendance attheir numerous outdoor pastimes and gatherings such as Ten-nis, Polo, Golf, Yacht Races, Fox Hunts, Horse Show, etc.,many opportunities for picturesque groups and single por-traits. Such occasions give the Fashion and Press Illustrator ex-cellent chances to obtain good paying material. Such snap-shots can be taken with a three inch shutter slit at 1/50 of asecond, stopped down to F/8. If unusual detail is desired,and good sized figures, they can be obtained from a distanceof thirty or forty feet. If you request your subject to accom-modate you by posing you are usually met with an oh, nothanks, or worse yet, with a scathing, sarcastic look ofsilence. The only course left is that of snapping your partyat the first available chance, and with as little obtrusivenessas possible. Right here comes in play one of the vital andessential items of the Press Illustrators equipment, that of 226
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THE DEAD PIGEON. KATE MATTHEWS. possessing a speedy, long-focus lens such as will allow himto stand thirty feet or more away, and without attractingattention, obtain a large image. This requirement is ad-mirably met in the Ross Telecentric F/5.4. After a half dozenyears campaigning with a ten inch anastigmat, and the neces-sary maneuvering to approach into close enough range tocatch a social celebrity in some exclusive Casino or Clubenclosure, all out in the open, without a chance to concealyourself, or your conspicuous camera, the value of the Tel-ecentric lens has impressed itself upon the writer. These experiences recall many painful memories of failures,mental tortures suffered, echoes of cuss words hurled atmy ears and often a polite and forcible ejection through thegateway as the result of a desperate charge with the ten inchlens to steal nearer to the object in order to get a largerpicture. Now, with the coming of the Telecentric with itsdual advantages of rapidity and long ran

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