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SECTION FOR HONGKON
$2,000 worth of prizes for the nine place-getters in our
PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
Three weeks to go and our Photographic Competition will bej
closed.
By then we hope to have received entries from every member of the
17/21 Club.
And just look at the prizes we have to offer-almost $2,000 worth of cameras and
photographic equipment.
PORTRAITS.
1. Lightomatic Beauty
camera.
2. Coronet Electronic
Flash unit.
3. Rondo Colourmatic fully automatic
camera.
The competition has been
PETS.
1. Kodak 8 Millimetre
cine-camera..
2. PK electronic flash-
unit.
3. Certo camera.
GENERAL.
1. Minolta SR I camera.
2. Minolta Unionmat.
3. Minolta A5.
But it is open only to
separated into three classes the one class or you can members of the 17/21 Club.
- portraits, pets and enter photographs in all general. You can enter just three.
-THE CHINA MAIL'S-
17/21 Club Photographic Competition
NAME (in block capítol)
AGE
ADDRESS (in, block capitals)
Class 1. Portraits
2. Petr
3. General
Size..
Size....... Sa..
(Denote clms or classes you intend to enter with a dok)
Minimzas Menit = 10, maximen sign18 X 20.
Entries will be received at the Chios Mail Office is the South China Morning
Put Building, Wyndham-street, up to Monday, October 2.
RULES
● Only members of the 17/11 Club may enter the competition.
• Photographe limited to black and white only. They must be mounted, The judges ércícios musi de taken as fuel.
● No responsibility will de accepted by the China Mail for loss or damage if phato-
The competition is sot open to any mender of the staf of the South Chine Mining Post LiZ, or to any member of an employee's famûy.
8mm
(Signed)
To become a member is simple, but you have to be within the 17/21 age group.
To apply for membership, a membership form found in the club section of Satur- day's China Mail must be filled in and sent to us. That is all you have to do. -
All entries must be accom- panied by a Photographic] Competition entry form which the China Mail is publishing every day.
They must be mounted and only in black and white. Entries won't be accepted after Monday, October 2.
So get busy and send in your photographs. Just think of those big prizes waiting for the winners. Good Luck!
THE THIRD
TO TAKE EXACTLY THE SAME PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE SAME PLACE WITH CAMERAS EACH USING A DIFFERENT SIZE OF NEGATIVE, LENSES OF DIFFERENT FOCAL LENGTH MUST BE USED.
The 17-21 Club's five rules
NEW MEMBERS
GENE
DIESPECKER, 20,
road, Kowloon.
Membership in the 17- student, 23 Waterloo. 21 Club is open to all within that age group. Contributions and all ac- tivities of the Club will! be limited to members only.
Contributions may con- sist of anything that is publishable articles, letters, stories, photo graphs, drawings, verses. But only the best will be printed.
RICKY YOUNG, 19, student, 14 Wang On-road, Hong- kong.
VIDGA JETHANAND, 19, student, 150-Tai Hang- road, Garden Mansion, 8th floor, Hongkong. JOHNNY LAU, 19, student, 187 Fa Yuen-street, 1st floor, Kowloom.
●. All contributions MUST JENNIE WONG, 19, sta-
be original.
dent, 2A Shan - Kwong- Written contributions road, 3rd floor, Hong- should not consist of kong.
more than 350 words, JOSEPH LEW, 18, student, photographs and draw-116 Gloucester-road, 2nd ings will only be accept- ed in black-and-white.
MEMBERSHIP
Fill this in and send it to the China Mail, 1-3 Wyndham Street, Hongkong.
Name
Age Occupation Address
EYE
PE DEPTH OF FIELD
floor, Hongkong."-
JOHN HO, 19, student, 91 Third-street, 3rd floor, Hongkong.
TONY LO, 17, student, 70 Sing Woo-road,: 2nd, floor, Happy - Valley, Hongkong.
ANDREW HO, 19, 44 Man Wah Village, 3rd Division, 2nd Section, Homentin. DAVID LIU, 17, student, 10
- Hanoi-rond, Kowloon. LINA SUN, 18, student, 52 Robinson-rood, 7th floor, Hongkong
24x24
24x34
1/4 PLATE
THE DIAGONAL OF THE PICTURE IS THE IMPORTANT MEASUREMENT IN THIS CONNECTION.
THE SMALLER THE CAMERA THE SMALLER THE DIAGONAL OF THE NEGATIVE, AND THE SHORTER THE FOCAL LENGTH
OF THE LENS.
2 PLATE
THAT MEANS THAT TO › OBTAIN THE REQUIRED
DEPTH OF FIELD, THE
SMALLER THE CAMERA THE BIGGER THE APERTURE POSSIBLE. FOR COMPARABLE · RESULTS, THE SMALLER THE CAMERA, THE
FASTER IT IS.
COMPARE THE
THE SHORTER THE FOCAL LENGTH OF THE LENS THE GREATER ITS DEPTH OF FIELD. AT A GIVEN APERTURE.
FOR SPEED OF TAKING, THE SIZE OF THE CAMERA IS
MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE SPEED"
OF THE LENS.
DIFFERENT APERTURES — AND
RELATED TIMES NEEDED BY FOUR DIFFERENT CAMERAS TO TAKE THE SAME PICTURE WITH ALL THREE FIGURES IN FOCUS.
35 mm. 1/135 sec. AT 135
244x2, $35 SEC. AT f6-3..
214x34, 125 SEC.
AT 18.
14 PLATE 444x344. Y SEC. AT !!.
NEXT WEEK-WHY YOL
NEED A LENS HOOD.