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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3But even this arrangement is not sufficient to produce a clear picture when the lenses are exposed to a strong light, the bright part of the sky, for instance. Diffused light exists in the atmosphere, and if we wish to see distant objects clearly, we must look at them through a tube. The stars, for instance, are visible at noon-day from the bottom of a well. Bearing this principle in mind, an important addition should be made to every camera, in the shape of a long darknened tube in front, as shown in Fig. 5, which is a section of a camera, with all the proposed improvements introduced. Fig. 5. A camera constructed on this principle would be equally suitable for views or portraits, because its lens would give as flat a field as an ordinary view lens, and splendid definition might be obtained by using a stop immediately in front of the front lens. By removing the stop, and working in a strong light with a full aperture, it would be suitable for taking instantaneous pictures. It was with a lens of this kind that M. Flacheron produced his magnificent views of Rome some years ago, and it is surprising that this form of lens should have gone out of fashion, and been supplanted by one in which everything is sacrificed to the central pencils. The great merit of a photograph is to be equally good in every part, and not to have the edges of the field sacrificed to the centre, a defect which, in views of landscapes or architecture, is perfectly unbearable. Should it be necessary, when using the above form of camera, to turn its axis upwards, the slide must be always kept strictly vertical by means of the arrangement for that purpose, otherwise, all the vertical lines would appear to have a vanishing point in the zenith. The camera and slide should be square, and the plates large enough to take in the wh...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443281003
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 144328100X
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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