Once there was a time when, to get your picture taken, you had to sit still for ten minutes in brilliant sunshine, with your face powdered white as snow so it would reflect more light. Ten minutes—think of it. And then compare this ordeal with today, when snapshots can be taken in a mere fraction of a second—either in the daytime or at night—and with the most inexpensive cameras, Yes, photography has certainly made tremendous strides. Today. with modern high speed films, you and other camera fans can take pictures practically anywhere at any time. With inexpensive photo bulbs. you can get splendid snapshots of night even if you have just a box camera. And if your camera has a fast lens. you don't even need the extra lights in many cases.
For example. if your lens ig as fast as f/35, you can take snapshots of many (well lighted) night sports events—wrestling, boxing events, baseball or softball games. ice skaters under a spotlight. and similar subjects. Not time exposures, but snapshots. You can snap pictures of actors on a theatre stage, and pictures of the crowds out front under the bright marquee. And theres no special technique to it—you just load the camera with high speed film, open up the lens to the largest opening. set the shutter at say 1/25 second. and shoot, Finer Cameras and Faster Lenses With such possibilities as that, it's no wonder that more and more camera fans are taking up the finer cameras with faster lenses. Because. 0f course. a fast-lens camera can also be used for all other kinds of snapshots. If the light is bright and clear—sunshine. or photo lights—you just close the lens down to a smaller opening. Or, if you're shooting a fast-action subject, you just set the shutter for more speed. Either way. the fast-lens camera helps you get what you want.
At home, too, a fine camera gives you many snapshots that you couldn't get with a slow-lens camera. I have at hand a little card-board exposure guide which tells the exposures for ordinary home lighting. It cost a dime. And believe it or not, with an f/35 lens you can take snapshots at 1/25 second on high speed film with three ordinary 100-watt bulbs, placed three feet from the subject. Those are bare bulbs, if you used reflectors wth them. f/45 would do. Consider how convenient that is in taking snapshots of the baby, or older folks at home.
Yes, at home or away, modern films and fine modern cameras enable us to do remarkable things—whether we're beginners or experts. It's a wonderful age—and camera fans are learning how to make the most, of educated lama goes back to his little cell and begins to wonder what it is all about. If this is progress and civilization, he tells the lama next door, "well let us spend out days in the study of religion." Religion may be useless but it is not as dangerous as cannon balls "Certain Naughty Policemen In the first place, it appears that a large number of complaints arose I the conduct of m naughty Dein the literal sense of the word who Were a bit too press-
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