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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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s largest daily papers. It was atthe hurdle where some of Long Islands famous fox-hunterswere being judged. I happened to have with me that dayonly a little 2^ by 3^ camera with a between the lens shutterworking at 1/250 second. It was 4 oclock in September; theshadows were somewhat long and the light was yellow. Myneighbor was equipped with a 5 x 7 type of reflex camera, alarge aperture lens, and said he had his shutter going at1/900 second. As a large bay jumper cleared the bars weboth let go at him. Several days afterward I met my friendagain and asked him where his stuff was, as I had lookedin vain for it in last weeks photo supplement. He repliedthat the light had got him and all his stuff was punk. An 8x 10 framed enlargement of the jumper (which someof my friends tell me looks like a contact print) shows thatmy 1/250 second was speedy enough (or rather was slowenough) to catch him even in the dim light. One of the bestpictures of the Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race (so the donor of 96
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Figure 2.Illustrating Article Speed and the Amateur, by T. W. Kilmer. the cup tells me) I happened to get near the old S turn witha No. 3 Kodak and Sector shutter at 1/150 second, Eastmanfilm, Dagor lens. In an article by the writer last year published in TheCamera there appears a rapidly moving baseball severalinches before reaching the catchers mit. This picture wastaken with a Bis-Telar lens working at only F/7, and a com-pound shutter working at 1/250 second. It also shows a runner sliding for the home plate. Thethree appended illustrations (Figures 1-2-3) show what can bedone by any one owning a small roll film camera, an anastig-matic lens of F/6.8, and a between the lens shutter working at1/250 second. Speed is truly a good thing to have in reserve, but let usnot forget that most of us have at our command sufficientspeed, even when using what is termed an ordinary camera,to indelibly and effectively record impressions of rapidly mov-ing objects.

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