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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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nspicuous, and the price is prohibitive for the averageworker. After mature consideration and from practicalexperience, I have come to the conclusion that an AnscoSpeedex No. 3, fitted with an F/4.5 lens, is an ideal instru-ment for this particular work. It is a real pocket camera,extremely simple in operation and extraordinarily efficient.The large aperture anastigmat lens enables one to makesnapshots under the most unfavorable conditions, and the fullmeasure of such occasions will be encountered in serious vZoophotography. The 2^4 in- x 3^4 in. size picture is about thesmallest that can be adequately used in the album. It is welladapted for making lantern slides, and the correctly-timednegative enlarges satisfactorily. Zoo subjects are particularly effective when rendered inthe form of stereoscopic pictures, but like the Graflex, astereoscopic camera is rather ibulky and somewhat limited inits use in this field of endeavor. Sometimes it is an extremely easy matter to make a good 104
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STILL LIFE STUDY. Copyuight, march 1021, Louis Astrella CHRIST OR MAMMON. photograph of a bird or an animal, then again it may proveto be the most difficult and exasperating task to get just whatone wants. The only thing is not to be discouraged by fail-ures—one will get plenty of them—but keep on trying untilsuccess is achieved. If one desires to obtain a representativecollection of Zoo pictures it will be necessary to make manyvisits. The habits and characteristics of the various subjectsmust be studied. The better acquainted one gets with theanimals, the keepers and conditions, the possibilities andlimitations, the better chance for success. - The most desirable, perhaps, of all Zoo subjects are thegreat cats—lions, tigers, leopards, but the likelihood ofsecuring good pictures of them is very uncertain. About theonly way is to place the lens of the camera through the barsof the cages, but it is only on rare occasions a satisfactorypicture can be secured in this manner. There

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