Many of our camera-minded members have written in requesting a "Photographic Corner." Since the Club has not yet found someone who is qualified to write a weekly column on the subject, here is instead an article that will be of interest to the shutter-bugs....
Snapshot-of a black cat in a coal cellar
DOES
OES your camera come out only with the sun and never ever see the light in the dark days of winter? If so, you are missing both pic- tures and pleasure. There's more fun in night photography than in any picture-making under the sun.
However simple your camera, Portraits in the gloom, are subject and the answer gives photos after dark are easy delightfully informal, but lack you the f. number for your now when sputnik cameras can the glamour bestowed by flatter- camera. picture the moon with the ease ing studio lighting. For Holly-
of street photographers snap- ping passers on the prom.
There are three ways to get pictures when the sun doesn't shine. The easiest is stagger- ingly simple: just load your camera with a faster film. The
wood portraits at home invest in two or three photofloods.
Bright life
Don't worry
answer
Don't worry if the doesn't have an exactly cor- responding f number. Use the
The bright but brief life of nearest f number there is. faster the film the less light it the popular No. 1 type which Fast films of about 200 ASA needs and there are now, readily has a standard bayonet fitting are suitable for both flash and obtainable, films so fast that suitable for, use in ordinary photoflood sunlight is too bright for them. bulb holders-is only two hours For occasional use flashbulbs With a super-fast flm-look or so; but usually enough for are cheap and economical. But
for an emulsion rating of from 400 to 1600 ASA on the box you can take your Camera indoors or out at night to cap- ture the exciting atmosphere of Hight as faint as candle or moon- shine.
two or three picture sessions. with the bulbs. But an exposure Exposure tables are supplied
meter ensures consistently top- class results.
become an enthusiast for flash
investing in electronic. pictures and it's time to think of
An electronic flash, powered by batteries or a rechargeable For sparkling, brilliantly lit accumulator, uses a tube good pictures, with no dependence on for several thousand flashes in- an electricity supply, flash Is stead of the once-only life of a Black cats in a coal cellar; the answer. It's the safe standby flashbulb.
Make the Initial outlay--- sultry singers in a night club; if of the Press photographer, who you can see them you can snap must get his picture anywhere which may be as much as your camera cost and running ex- them as easily as you took plc- at any time. And it does away
penses tumble to a fraction of a tures on the beach when the with exposure problems. sun did shine this summer.
Pictures with flash are easier penny, per flash.
There's a bonus, too. You can Super fast films can be pro- to take than snapshots in the
reason? Sunshine use your camera's fastest shut- cessed only in a limited range sun. The of developers. Make sure the varies in brightness and clouds ter speed and the quick blink of electronic speed flash com- I advise office workers, parti- developer you use is suitable or often-too oftendiffuse it.
exposure
ia for pletes the Exposure guide numbers cularly those of you who carry point out the type of film when
different speeds of film are 1/1000th of a second or less. not to wear handing in for processing. your newspaper, white gloves. The sight of a
listed in instructions with the pair of limp, solled, grey-at-the- Pictures taken in ordinary bulbs. Set your shutter speed at Anger-tips and around-the-room lighting are crammed with 1-25th or 1-30th second. Divide seams gloves is disheartening atmosphere. The lower the light- the appropriate guide number Faint heart never won fair lady ing the greater the effect.
it wasn't tempted. fair is still in tower, screaming for Roderigo.
So lady
Gloves are to be worn, not held, or dropped. (You would look awfully silly if you had to double back furtively to pick them up yourself-handkerchiefs are the thing, cheap ones they don't make a point of picking them up either. "I say, is that yours?" they'll ask, so that you would think that it was only be- cause they weren't sure and would certainly have picked it up if they had been, Except that you were carefully polish- ing your nose with it, not five minutes ago!
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As a sun dress, you could make this number in a gay print. You would do better to leave out the ribbon, unless you use a, ribbed cotton substitute.
Or you could use a piece of your print, If you like, the idea. With a matching wrap. lined in a solid colour picked up from the `print, this outât could sit very prettily on a pavilion somewhere, 'after you've had your fill of sun
and sand.
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Credit Card to Linda Lai, Kowloon.
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by the distance in feet from the
at-a-glance guide
to pictures at night
What you can taka
Atmosphere-packed pictures taken unobtrusively in dim lighting. Carefully It
posed portraits indoors well lit, detailed pictures, any time, anywhere
The light to use
The film you need
Super fast, rated from 400 to 1600 ASA
Available
Photofood lamps
Fast film, rated at
Flash
about' 200 ASA
Peter Jenninga
MY
'BROTHERS*
HEAVEN protect me from
- and I my brothers will take care of the others.
No sir, my father's sons are TU wonderful people against whom I have nothing unpleasant to recall except a couple of minor outrages commited some 10. years back under the tem-
pation of Nestle's chocolate and Morton toffee. And I have already let bygones be bygones.
Note: Cameras with † numbers of 2.8 or smaller can use films of about half the speeds quoted.
Use the lowest speed film suitable for the light you are using. Remember, the faster the film the poorer the quality.
Set your exposure meter for twice the official speed rating of the film. Manufacturers' ratings incorporate a safety factor to allow for possible under-exposure.
Most accumulators die fast if not kept charged. Don't store electronic flash equipment away without ensuring that the accumu- lator is charged about once a month,
I
--(London Express Service),
17-21
CLUB MAILBOX
My prayer is, in fact, directed against the brothers whom I meet in my everyday life in buses, in queues, in cafes, in offices, in parks, etc.
They seem to be always on the look
out for.me. always ready to exploit me, annoy me and bully me. They are a heart- less brotherhood..
They have various ingenious ways of vexing me.
In the bus, no sooner I sit down beside a gentleman on a seat meant for two than one of them comes along and says: "BROTHER, Shift a little."
Without even waiting for my response, he pushes me as much as he can and makes himself. in the comfortable beside me.
WOULD be very glad if you would print this 17-21 Club Mailbox this week. · Thank you. Mr Ahmed, Mr Burgess told all the teachers in the Colony that there is nothing wrong with Elvis Presley so what have you got against him? Jealousy? Is it true that everytime you hear one of Elvis' records being played over the radio, or Rediffusion you shirt it or don't you even have a Rediffusion?
Don't tell me that you've never been to a movie, or have you? Don't you have a favourite movie star, or are you jealous of them all?
And then when I am in the middle of a very interesting re- port on the Congo crisis in the
paper, he evening
says: "BROTHER, can I have it" and Hiterally snatches away tha paper from my hands.
While I am standing in a AUPTA queue for tickets, he comes and You say that we have no time to read profitable books, don't says "BROTHER, buy a ticket for me also," and thrusts his you think that we go to school?
In our school, we have to write a book report every month, money into my hands. don't you think that we have to read profitable books before we can do so? Do you think our teacher will accept an article on
Alm starst
བདབ་
When I am reading in the "Brother" wants to know when quiet of the library, my. exactly I would finish with the book I am reading because be also is in a hurry to read it..
This reminds me of the lines "When man to man shall be a friend and brother." That was According to the newspaper quite sometime ago, an American the dream of a poet a dream tourist who had been around the world said that Hongkong teen-that seems to have been at least, agers are the best behaved people in the world. Would you like partially fulfilled in Hongkong. to know more? Read the papers.
You also said that teenagers copy every imitation of their favourite stars and, wear red flashy shirts and blue jeans.
I don't believe that everytime you go for a walk you wear a suit. If you do, you'll be the only person in the Colony who does, or, perhaps you are out of your head.
Yes, I would like to meet Mr Anonymous and you “vis-a-vis." Credit Card to A. H. AHMED, When can I do so?—Kathleen E. Klarte, Kowloon,
Hongkong.