The international photographer (Jan-Dec 1934)

November, 1934 Th INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPH KK Fifteen possible to achieve a black tree if you try long enough, or a white sky, instead of a black sky, from a blue one. This inclines to be discouraging at times, as in the case of the writer, who made eight trips through the East Boston traffic tunnel on as many different days, trying to get a picture of the Boston skyline that would be something better than a Daguerreotype. To the eye, conditions were ideal. To the camera, with its opaque infrared filter over the lens, they were anything but that. Some odd diffusion of the infra-red rays over the city made it impossible to get the desired result. From South Boston, on the other hand, the result was exactly what experience had indicated it would be. That is why the safest policy is to take the picture first, and find the market afterward. It sounds a little silly to hand in a report that a peculiar diffusion of invisible rays in a certain spot makes it impossible to fulfill your contract. One can even conceive of a painfully involved situation arising, dependent entirely on the legal status of an invisible ray. It would be premature to claim that infra-red photography will ever make any serious inroads on the field of orthodox commercial photography. It is a reasonable prediction, however, that whatever may be its future in warfare, it will find a definite place for itself in commercial work, and in news photography as well. BE YOUR OWN PRODUCER AND NEWSREEL CAMERAMAN Why not adapt your Bell & Howell or your Mitchell camera to the single system picture and recording. Be your own producer and newsreel cameraman ? Art Reeves, president of the Hollywood Motion Picture Equipment Company, has a complete stock of the necessary parts, made especially for this purpose. Some machine work is necessary on the camera, but the parts are all ready to put in place and will work perfectly. The tachometer and bracket come separately or together. This tachometer reads in frames per second or feet per minute. The motor is the new automatic speed control type and when properly set will come up to 90 feet per minute and remain there through the entire change in load of a thousand feet of film running through the camera. The motor is rated 1/12 horse power, but will actually deliver about 1/8 horse power if this were The recording lamp is a specially built short tube glow lamp which fits into and locks in position. Pulling on the cable will not disturb the position of the filament with the optical system, which is the famous "Art Reeves" dual optical system. It is ground to pass two beams of light of different widths simultaneously on to the film. The wider beam of light responds to frequencies of 25 to 5,000 cycles and the narrower beam of light responds to frequencies from 4,000 to 16,000, except that the narrow line of light is recording all the time, adding to the exposure of the wider line of light, although not changing the quality of the lower register. ever found necessary. This reserve power is very useful in cold climates. On the rear of the motor is a 3-pound flywheel and the belt pulley which connects with the pulley on the crankshaft. The belt connecting these two pulleys is of rubberized fabric. The bracket which holds the motor in place also holds the 10-pound flywheel which is connected with the main sprocket. The motor control switch is located on the right hand side of the motor in a most convenient place. The focusing microscope has full ground glass image, right side up. All of the parts are precision built, with ruggedness and portability full} considered. 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