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...shelf with a view 700 ft. straight down. His great 8 by 10 studio camera-basically unchanged in construction from the days of Daguerre, Morse and Mathew Brady, but still, in Smith's opinion, the best for scenic photography-was smashed beyond repair. A second of these cameras, tripod and all, went to its doom from the top of Rainbow Falls. But the third more than proved its worth in the Bitterroot Mountains, where the 40° below temperature would have played hob with roll film...
...Emerald Island. Meanwhile, the Senate was treading more cautiously. For some eight hours one day, the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified before the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees. At hand was a map of Formosa and the China coast, set on a metal tripod. The mainland was shown in a rich chocolate color, Formosa in emerald green. There were other maps, kept well covered and guarded by military personnel when not in use. It was a tense session. Said Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey: "I recall that there was not one smile, not one jest...
...combined light from his flashbulbs (he is using 500 million) would make a major planet pale. The sun to him is chiefly a source of light that often calls for a yellow filter, and the moon merely an object which it is hard to photograph without a tripod: he approaches the highest peaks through a telephoto lens, scans new horizons through his range finder-and if he ever came across the Blue Bird, he would whip out his color chart...
Ashcan school (gloomy photography) baby legs (short-legged tripod) butterfly (shadow beneath a subject's nose) darkroom widow (a hypo hound's wife) Dinky-Inkie (small spotlight) dynamite (strong developing fluid) high hat (low camera support for "worm's eye" pictures) lens louse (he muscles into someone else's picture) soot & whitewash (a print that has no middle tones) willy (a soft, fuzzy picture...
This is a selective gift for a selective camera fiend. Imported from Germany exclusively by the CRIMSON CAMERA EXCHANGE, at 1300 Massachusetts Avenue, this collapsible tripod grows from 8 1/4 inches high when folded to 45 inches when the seven sections are fully extended. It sells for $8.95, is light weight and easy to carry...