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THIS

CheSNAPSHOT GUILD DREAM

HANGING

Photo Lingo in Brief

above the dock with the other because the film' where Snapshot Guild is speeds are different.. written is a card bearing the But words: 'Keep It Simple." keeping it simple and short, too -Isn't always easy. For there are certam basle terms in the language of photography which are used again and again. Too often, space la lacking in which such terms may be defined.

So it is easy to sympathise with a reader who complains that on occasion he has had to go to book on photography to learn the meaning of some word or phrase which has been used here. It's easy to sympathize, yes, and perhaps it's easy to help. For 1 hore's a brief list of common terms used in photography, a handful of defnitions for the Hingo which you are likely to And in this column every now and then.

Lens Aperture: The opening through which light enters the camera to make a picture, With many cameras this varied in size.

Latitude: The degree to which some films can produce accept

pictures despite reason- able able over or underexposure. In the "margin of errori short, bullt into aims to compensate plcture for the mistakes of the taker.

Keep these defiaftions th you to mind. They'll help understand a few of the most commonly used photographic expressions..

-John van Gulldor.

MEANS:

Its

This iɔbster with sharp pincers arising out: of the water F17" surely symbol of ag

and gression hatred arising of your 900 unconscious mind. For

mi

Socia reason It seems to be directed

** YOU WERE SITTING ON YOUR BED SURROUNDED BY WATER FIN WHICH WAS A GIANT, LOBSTER. YOUR SMALL. BROTHER WAS WADING IN THE WATER QUITE UNCONCERNEDE

IN THE END YOU HURRIED FROM THE BED TO THE LANDING, SHUT THE

· DOOR AND FLEDİ

-DOWNSTAIRS'

kalost your small' brother who seems tantalisingly unconcerned. Has he been teasing you unmercifullý? Or have they been "spoiling him" to`your · annoyance?

** Whatever the catime, your feelings towards him Riave be- : come ambivalódi (accent on the "hiy"); if you remember, the word means to love and to hate someone, piumNaneously.

A British Crossword Puzzle

D

may

be

which

Shutter: The device opens and closes to permit light | to pass through the lens.

Shutter Speed: The time during which the shutter re- mains open to admit light to the film

the camera. For example, 1/50 of a second.

Exposure: The amount of light to which

the sensitive film in the camera is exposed. This is Determined by size of the lens aperture and the shutter speed.

Focal Length: Roughly, the distance from the lens to the fim when the camera is focused on a distant object,

f Number: A number used to denote the aperture of a leds, as 1/8, 1/11, or f/16. Since the number represents the ratio of the diameter

of the aperture the focal length of the lens, the smaller numbery represent the larger

Оп apertures.

most cameras these are arranged so that

f each

number (or aperture) admits twice as much light to the im as the nexi higher number.

Depth of Field: Also called range of sharpness, depth of field refers to the distance-in a picture scene from the nearest point in sharp focus to the farthest point in sharp focus. The smaller the lens aperture the greater the depth of field.

Film Speed: This refers to the relative amount of light required to produce a satisfactory nega.

on different types of flim. tive For example, using two different films to picture the same scene, the exposure with one may be twice the exposure, required

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

WINTA MATTER.... WHERE'S TH

BURGLAR WHY....

A ROACH!

LOOK..

A ROACH

FIRE

?

"HEY!"

LEAVE IT TO THE GALS TO LET OUT A YELP YOU COULD HEAR A BLOCK AWAY, SCARING THE DAY- LIGHTS OUT OF YOU...AND ALL BECAUSE OF A LITTLE BUGFOR TWO,

12

12.

14

18

19

120 121

125

23

1 Tree (0)

ACROSS

5 Grales (5)

8 Entertained (8)

Road surface (4)

10 Plaything (6)

11 Happen again (5)

12 At that time (4) 13 Wood

(5)

10 Withdraw from (6) 18 Irritates (6) 20 of the nose (5) 22 Mineral (4) 23 Rescued (5) 25 Ratlon (5)

26 Race (6)

27 Sends out (5)

28 Rips (5)

29 Astute (0)

13

DOWN

1 Formal supplication (0)

2 Omens (8)

3 At a distance (4)

4 Goes back (7)

6 Lessons (7)

B

@ Worshipped (8)

7 Dance (6)

14 Certain (8)

15 Stayed behind (8)

16 Obelsances (7)

17 Joins closely (7)

18 Church festival (8) 21 Revile (5)

24 Verve (4)

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Spur, 7 Verge,

B Urge, 9 Head, 10 Stutter, 12 Ewer, 15 Arise, 18 Ster, 10 Liege, 21 Ruled. 22 Rind, 23 Edits, 26 Damp, 29 Abetted, 30 Onus, 31 Firm, 32 Slate, 33 Path. Down: 1 Berth, 2 Agitate, 4 Peers, 6 Rude, 6 Ogre, 9 Heir, 11 Trade, 13 Weed, 14 Rued, 16 Elite, 17 Prod, 18 SUm, 20 Install, 22 Ribs, 24 Daunt, 24 Petty, 27 Arid, 28 Pomp.

1

!!

Leave It To The Girls

AND YOU'D BETTER. SPEND IT CARETULLY... THAT'S ALL THERE IS,-- NO MORE

'TIL DAY

DAY/

A

| COFI, IMY IT SINIRAL FEATURES

CORF, THE WORLD KISHTE RELÜK VEC

D

WELL, I HAD TO SHARPEN A

PENCIL!

„AÏD TO SWITCH YOUR, TV, TO- "SOME OTHER CHANUEL ............ AND IN TEN MINUTES SUES OFF DOING SOMETHING ELSE.

WHAT DID

*LOOK! ALL DRIED YOU EXPECT.P

UP!

VYOU DIDN'T.

·CLOSE THE "

LID TIGHT...

LEAVE IT TO HER TO WONDERİ WAY THE PAINT: GOT AS SOLID

ASA CEMENT SIDEWALK

AND LEAVE IT TO THE GALS TO COME ACROSS WITH ACOUPLE OF BUCKS FOR. | LUNCH MONEY WHEN YOUR, "INVESTMENT' IN POKER' |CHIPS TURNS SOIR....OR

A HORSE YOU NEVER SAW.

WALKED OFF WITH YOUR EXPENSE HONEY.

WHAT

TH

BLANKE

LEAVE IT TO THE WIFE TO

USE YOUR LAST ONE TOO.

You feel rather guilty about the whole maller, yet enraged at the same time: perhaps his indifference makes it worse. Anyway, 'you', refuse to admit your argression to yourself and In the end you shut the door and fly, from the whole situstlanı. when Children can be unconsciously cruel -- expecially they're angling for a little affection and response: so why not try smothering the brat with kindness,

WINSTON'S

FATHER

The 'strange, dramatic story that sheds new light- after 47 years on a tragic and frustrated career

M

-R CHURCHILL'S by Robert Blake

Life of his father,

He saw that neither the Liberal leaders, nor his own leaders Disraeli, died in 1881 had an understanding of the new forces in society. Ho per- ceived golden dividends for a Tory opposition which attacked the Liberals not for being too too

Lord Randolph Thirteen years earlier: Disraeli Churchill, is the fineat poli- had taken his famous leap in the tioal blography written in dark and entranchised the urban the

twentieth century. working claw, Couched in the majestic

The

People that mysterious radical but for being language of a modern Gib- concept whose virtues the politi- cautious and too conservative. bon, it tells a strange and cal philosophers have so fre-

The Conservative leaders dramatic story of the quently acclaimed-had at last

become sovereigri But the old were Lord Salisbury in the greatest interest, both

House of Lords, Sir Stafford Northcote In the House personal. political and

Commous. The latter was a Everyone will welcome the

mild and elderly person deeply new edition, appeared 47

Imbued with the traditions of the House, and years after the original

great admirer treal- of Mr Gladstone, whom he publication of the book.

ed with a ed with courtly deference, irksome to the younger mem- bera of the Tory Party. Lord Randolph was determined to drive him out of active politics, Together with the coul and Lord Balfour,

Lord Randolph Churchill's career in politics was meteoric in every sense of that much- abused word. Emerging in 1880, he blazed with ever increasing Parlia- brilliance

upon the

like Milton's mentary scene. comet "perplexing nations with the fear of change" only to 1860 into the outer vanish.in spaces of political extinction.

How did an unknown back-

brief in so bancher become time the foremost figure of his party, at the age of thirty- Deven Chancellor of the Exche- quer and Leader of the House of Commons!

Why did he fali so

Buddenly

from

that

giddy

LORD, RANDOLPH.

...a boil on the neck.

enigmatic Arthur formed

Randolph

so-called Fourth Party,

the

4

Its object was, behind a facade

of civility, to attack and under- mine the prestige of the official Conservative leader. Sir Stafford Northcote was given the nick- nama

ent

allusion

of "the goat”—an irrever- to the shape of ‘kis beard. Lord Randolph and his friends declared eternal war

upon all those whom he himself once described as "the old man who crooned over the fires of

im- the Carlton

eminence and fall never to rise guard in both the great political

angularly again? These are the questions parties were which Mr Churchill's long and perous to the significance of fascinating blography seeks to that fact.

Enswer.

which

Club

“BANISHED

were

Lord Randolph. Churchill was

Those harassing tactics Inside His success was due in part to young, gay, witty and remark the House of Commons

He saw at once accompanied by popular appeals the curious poilical situation ably clever..

Like, his son, Lord prevalled In 1880.. that the future lay with the outside,

party which could interpret the Randolph was a master of trony, long he became tha, leading ex- ponent of "Tery Democracy

the country.

• Lord Randolph Churchtit by inarticulate aspirations of the Invective, and rhetoric.

new electorale. Winston Churchill (Odhams, 18.).

By KEMP STARRETR

VI HAD TO CLEAN THE WHOLE HOUSE AND TAKE ́OUT ALL THAT TRASH YOU

LEFT IN THE CELLAR, AND DO MOST OF THE IRONING

AND..

ETC.

LEAVE IT TO A GAL TO WORK HERSELF RAGGED ALL DAY...AND WIEN HER, MAN GETS HOME, ACT AS IF HE HAD STOOD OVER.

·WITH A WRIP..........REGULAR SIMON LEGREE.

LEAVE IT TO THE AVIFE TO WORRY, ALL THROUGH THE TRIP ABOIT.

•VIETHER SHE- TURNED OFF "THE STOVE OR FORGOT THE NOTE FOR THE MILK MAH OR. LEFT ANYTHING DEAID.

* YOU.

S'POST WE OUGHT TO GO BACK

"AND SEEP

AND LEAVE IT TO THE GALS TO TRY ✔TO PICK LINT OUT "OF AN ELECTRIC- OUT-LET WITH 'A:

HAIR-PIN".

Before

The first stage of his ambition was reached in 1885 when Conservative "caretaker" Gov- ernment took offco. At Lord Randolph's insistence Sir Stafr ford. Northcote was banished to the dignified obscurity of peerages and

himself became

Only one between Lord Randolph highest

barrier wa

for

now

y

The

But

that

amble Lord

毖

Salisbury possessed a fame,

and an intellectual

of the first magnitude.

he hated democracy

and regarded

of Cecil has illusion. The House as an seldom been in the vanguard of the people's cause and Lord Salisbury was no exception. He regarded Lord Randolph with profound scepticism and no small apprehension.

For the

the moment he could do nothing to balt Lord Randolph's progress. The Irish crisis of 1485-6 into which .Lord Randolph plunged with all the vigour resulted in a Conserva- Live victory

In the, Cabinet of 1888 Lord Randolph

Churchill became Chancellor, of, the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Com- mons. Tot within clx months his political career was at an end.

It

HIS-BLUNDER

is true that Lord Randolph treated finance with a certain levity. "I forget," he once said, "was a bimetallistat; the India Office?” And on another, occasion, when some gures expressed in decimals had been explained to him, he observed, "I never could make out what

ose damned dots meant.”

from

those

meas

But his ruin camo, inot. Laulty

arithmetic, but, an im

petuous. temperament

After a long series of on ments with the rest of the he suddenly in Decem-

Cabinet

bar resigned · ou 'n' roncomed with Army

To his

surprise

chumate Lord Salisbury

accepted his resignation and minde no attempt to persuade him to withdraw. "Did you ever krowaving got rid of a Lord Salisbury

sald

boll on his neck, wanted an- other?" Lord Randolph, never held office again.

becomes clearer than ever how fatal a blunder Lord Han Colph had committed in 'reilgn. ing on such an Ionse when it was silli # Budget secret; clear: Lord

* 100 how determined Salisbury was to avoid

conellation with la turbulent

leutenant