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CAR OVERTURNS.
KOWLOON LADIES IN MOTOR ACCIDENT.
Mrs. Moon of 1, Cambay Build ings and Mrs. Fisher, wife of Captain. Fisher of Jordan House, Kowloon, wern involved in An
| alarming motor accident on the Caatlo Peak Road on Thursday afternoon.
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(BY SNAP-SHOOTER.")
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An Austin saloon, driven at the
Last week I was somewhat pre- or tilting the instrument. Do not time by Mrs. Moon, mounted the mature in indicating what I was imagine that because your camera embankment of a now road and going to tell you to-day. As theue. completely overturned, coming
taken au instantaneous exposure
Best explain a few things about the camera before proceeding to the in- teresting subject of steveloping"the
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shake the instrument while waking the picture. If you do that you will get a blurred image on your negative. The same thing will hap pen if you attempt to take a snap- orshot while soated in a moving
a motor car or on the ferry..
to rest on its hood. Both ladies nota are intended mustly for the (which amounts to about 1/28ths of wore trapped in the car and it beginner and the novice, I musta scrond in a box camera) you ens was not until the arrival of Ser geant Goodwin of the Shamsharpu Police Station that the unfortunate ladies wore released and rushed to the Kowloon Hospital. Fortunato ly neither of them were affaring from anything more than 4 korions shock, although Mrs. Tischer was
tained. Her condition was, how ever, not serious. reulamation near Cheung Sha Wan, where a new road is in the courar of construction..
The accident occurred along the
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I am assuming that you are al ready the
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the best for the beginner because it has simple movements and there is therefore less chance of making mistakes. Further, this type has what is called a fixed focus, that is, ubjects within a cartela distaner, far, or near, are sharply defined on the film.
ly still while making the exposure. The camera must be held perfect-
It is best to hold it against the body but not pressing hard against it. Lat the camera lie in both) hands as far above the waist as possible while permitting you te see the object in the view Ander and work tho lever with your right thumb.
On purchasing a camera you will get a booklet or pamphlot, giving Camera shake is one of the most instructions for use. Read this
common faults of beginners and very carefully and make yourself
many advanced amateurs also'make familiar with every part of the the mistake sometimes. This fault, caher. The instructions will por-which I will call "local" motion, haps also tell you what is the closest distinct from "subject" motion, distance at which you can approach the local motion you are likely to is the more serious of the two. In" the subject. This is very important have the whole face of the negative as, if you get closer than allowed, blurted, or showing "double" "ob there is the probability of the headjects. Supposing the speed of your lens is not sufficiens to arrest the or the feet of the portrait you pre subject motion, Bay મ moving taking getting cut out in the nega. motor-car, the latter' will be blurred tive. The view finder may have in the picture, but all other objects show you the whole figure and the camera still during exposure.
will appear normal if you had kept deceived you,
Tilting the Gamers.
Understand Your Camera..
Attention to a few details before you make your first picture will
20,3/18 save you much disappointment and waste of flms. As I have said, it is very important that you under- stand your camera before loading the film. Take out the back portion which is the frame for carrying the roll of flm and then familiarise yourself with the lens and the shut ter. If you dopress the shutter lever to the "time" position the lens will be fully open. When you pull the stop slide half way you will get a medium opening, and still further you get the smallest stop.
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Another mistake which you should avoid is tilting the camera. building, do not tilt the camera. up. Tr your endeavour to take a high wards. You will only get a picture which will be narrower at the top The camere must be held perfectly and nothing like the thing you NAW. level. If you cannot get the top of the building by keeping the camera Getting further away from the level, do not attempt to expose. building will sometimes enable you to get all of it in the picture, but on a reduced scale.
tographer. sometimes has to use In taking tall buildings, the plio- what is called a rising front which is fitted to some of the higher
priced enmeros.
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the lens while keeping the negative the Des Vaux Road side, you are This device raisons way down Gloucester „Building on perfectly asrnight as it should be when you hold your camera level.
sure to lose the top of the building Some cameras also have a cross and get a lot of foreground. Even the rising front will not be helpful
chance of getting the whole of the at this height. But you have a
building without a rising front.. This may sound rather strange. The
With the largest opening a great rising movement which is used volume of fight pusses through the when taking horizontal pictureA, lens to the film, and comparatively rising front; there is also the fall The use of this is the man as the Ines with the smaller stops, Young front in some cameras. will therefore understand why we Our Past Office. give a larger opening for a snap- shot and a smaller stop. for a time. exposure.
Again looking through the lens. work the shutter at the instantane- ons or snapshot position and oh- surve. the light with the differant sizes of stops It will appenž to you only as a flash, but in that short span of time the object Tp. Front of the lens gats impressed on the flin coated with sensitive emin sion,
Value of Light.
Another important point to bear in mind in the condition of the light, which is dependent or ex- posure, the foundation of successful photography, Light value varies in atrength of different times of the day, from day to day, and, during different months or seasons. The sun which is shining at.11 o'clock this morning may appear to be the same at the same hour yester day, but from a photographic point of view this is not always so. How- ever, the beginner need not trouble about calculations and wading through light tables published in some books. He will get fairly succesful results by unrefully ob serving a few important points.
In the Brat place do not attempt to take a snapshot out of doors unfoss the sun is ahining If you had tried to take an instantaacous picture in the gloomy weather we have had during the week you are bound to have.met with failure. In taking a snapshot out of doors, give the Inrgest stop. The smaller stopa may be reserved for taking timo exposures, when it is advisable to place the camera on a firm support or on #tripod. Indoor photo- grapha require time exposures, sometimes extending to several 80- conds. Do not attempt this just
now.
Caméra "Shaka,'!
The handling of the camera is another important point. Many of the failures are due to shaking the camera while making the exposure.
standing on the spot indicated, you go to the second Boor verandab of Gloucester Building, you have a chance of getting the whole of the Post Office, including the spire 'and some sky. You will also get a portion of the road, the flashing the time. beacon and Strafe on the spot at
Pictures taken from a height ne described above, while enabling the enthusiast to get the whole of the building, ant out much of the ob
To take a local example, if you secret is that you have to take the try to take a picture of the Post picture from a height such as an op. | jectionable foreground which apoils Office from a position about half posite building. If, instead of many a gol picture.
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