Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Palace with 16 suitcases of equipment. One of the King's aides met them, ushered them into the King's 40-ft. by 60-ft. study where, with the active assistance of palace servants and electricians, they spent a busy half-hour setting up their camera and six batteries of lights (each containing seven flash bulbs), so as to provide exactly the best lighting effects on anyone sitting in the King's chair. At precisely the appointed hour the King entered through his private door. He shook hands, chatted in English and French with the photographers...
...Pole it shows the comrades jubilant, efficient, comfortable. They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky beard a wreath of icicles. Christmas touch: an antlered reindeer team prancing under the low wing of one of the giant four-motored ANT6 monoplanes...
...know it can be improved," said Professor Graton. We hope it will never be completely perfected, and have built it so that it can be improved and will not be "sewed up." All adjustments are built so change can be made. Any possible form of illumination or camera equipment can be used. We are now at work on fundamental additions...
...history of photography has been marked by spectacular jumps in popularity, but this miniature camera boom exceeds anything I have seen in my fifty years of experience in photography," he said...
...rise of the miniature camera, he continued, has been made possible by the introduction of new apparatus and more highly sensitized materials. Inability of commercial developers to handle these materials in the beginning forced the owners of small cameras to set up their own laboratories...