Now that summer is here, the days seem brighter as well as longer. This apparent brightness may deceive some of us into shortening our outdoor exposures—but we should be cautious in so doing.
Underexposure is the most frequent fault in amateur snapshots. A picture printed from an underexposed negative has a harsh appearance. The shadows are too black and lack detail, and by comparison the bright areas appear excessively bright. If many of your pictures have this appearance, you should practice giving fuller exposure, either through choice of a larger lens opening or longer shutter time.
Modern films have broad exposure latitude, to take care of reasonable errors in exposure. But we should not ask too much, and we should remember that a correctly-exposed negative always produces the best print. When we are in doubt, it is usually wiser to give a full exposure rather than one that may be too short.
Here are typical correct exposures for the "chrome" type films that most of us prefer for outdoor picture taking:
Brilliant day: Average subject, 1/25 second at 111 lens opening: open landscape, 1/25 second at f.16 water or beach scenes, 1/25 second at £22.
Cloudy bright day: Average subject, 1/25 second at £8; open landscape, 1/25 at f.11; water or beach scenes, 1/25 at f.16.
Dull day: Average subject, 1 163; open landscape, 1/25 at £8: water or beach scenes, 1/25 at f.11
One of the smallest police forces in the world, founded seven years ago, has now entered upon another of its busy periods. The Lord's police, wearing blue uniforms with brassards of the famous cricket Club's red and yellow colours, has nine members. The Superintendent, Arthur Page, was a constable in the regular police for 30 years before he come to Lord's.
Incidentally, though England's chief summer game lasts for only five months, members of Lord's enjoy quite a number of privileges in return for their annual subscription of three guineas. In addition to the facilities for matches and practice of-red to playing members, and the rackets and real there are the Rover tickets (issued for Tests, Varsity games and the Eton and Harrow match) and ihe provision of one of the best half crown luncheons in town, Smithfield Ends Strange Custom The stone, as a standard of measurement, is generally accepted all over the world as fourteen pounds. All ever the world, that is, except Smith-field. This famous meat market has ts own ideas of what should consti-lute a stone. To a member of any one of Smithfeld's 140 wholesale firms, a stone means eight pounds.
This eccentricity, which has gone on for 70 years, is now to be ended After January 1 next the 8-lb. stone will be. illegal. The new system is to be given three months' preliminary practice, to give the salesmen an opportunity -of getting used to the change-over. So e being altered, and printed matter revised New methods of bidding will have to be adopted.
With box cameras on dull days, a very short time exposure should be given, with the camera on a firm support. This exposure should be made with the second stop opening, and about as fast as you can work the shutter when set for "time." Snapshots can be taken with a box camera on any sunny day or well out in the open light on a cloudy-bright day.
Late in the afternoon, or early in the morning, light is weaker, and exposures should be lengthened accordingly.
Form the habit of correct pao abd your pictures WIL Jet A strange musical penance has been chosen by a Hindu priest, of Nimsar, India. He recently emerged from a cave where he had carried out 12 years of meditation and, say reports reaching Delhi, was so worried by the increasingly irreligious state of the world that he decided on his weird penance. For six years he intends to listen to loud musie continuously day and night, followed by six years of music throughout the day. This, he hopes, will be sufficient to restore religion fo the world
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