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AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY,

ABOUT THE LENS.

Maay misconceptions about tenses are current along amateur photographers, and much unsatisfactory and even bad work can be traced to ignorance of what the eye of the camera can and cannot

do.

A very common mistake is te suppose that good work cannot be done without un expensive lens. Granted that a fully corrected annstigmat is the best all-round lens to buy, yet there is a lot of work that an RR lens or even a single lens will do just as well. Indeed, the "single" lers is even superior to the highly cor- rected feus in sonic cases.

POINTS TO REMEMBER.

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The proper thing to do is to discover the limitations of the lens in use and work. within those limits. For instance, the

single

"lens, which generally has a be maximum aperture of f/11, cannot used for making яns of abjects in rapid motion, because it would not admit suficient light to, give a properly exposed negative. High speed subjects are the provines of the large aperture anastigmat, and are best left alone by the 'photo- grapher using single lens, except under exceptional conditions of light such as occur at sen when the sun is shining

The real held for the amateur who uses single lens is landscape, and if she specialises in that she will have no reason envy the possessor of an unastigmat Ieus. Some cf she finest landscape pictures ever made with a camera have been taken with single uncorrected lenses.

Another error, which persists among amatears is that lenses by certain makers bave greater depth of focus than other Depth of focus, or more correctly, depth of field, depends on the actual diameter For instance, any of the stop in use. two lenses with, say, a stop the diameter of which measures half an inet, will have the same depth of field, irrespective of The maker.

CAREFUL TREATMENT

NEEDED

Finally, lens of any kind requires careful treatment. It should not be clean- ed more often than necessary" Rather, care should be taken to keep it clean. "If it is dusty the dust should be blown. off, or baken of To rub a lens with dust on its surface is to run the risk of in- pairing the fine polish.. Should the lens be greasy, it must be gently wiped with soft silk bandkerchief which has been moistened with pure alcohol. These re- marks apply to all types of leuses, and particularly, to anastigmat lenses, which are made of very soft glass.

A MOST AMUSING PËRSON.

[SY-WILLIAM POLLDER.]

It is queer how gertain perfectly non- sensical things stick in your mind. One evening, well over twenty years ago, I happened to go to the Gaiety Theatre and hear someone say to Mr. George Grossmith-Mr. George Grossmith, jnc.. as he then was: "Is your mother enter taining this season ? "

"Not very," he replied, a triflé bored. Sheer footle, of course, but there it was, and there it sticks in my mind-charac teristic of the most amusing person who uttered it.

For Mr. Grosmith is the champion polite society footier of the English stage as the Honourable This.or. Lord That of ausical comedy he stands rather indulently to be sure, for standing is plain- ly rather a boring business with him- alone in the theatrical peerage. He saya My dear old chap" as agreeably as Charles Hawtrey used to meander on and tell a pack of delightful lica

There ought to be scores of George Grossmiths, but of course, there is only one. It looks the easiest thing in the world to wander about the stage and do what he does, and goodness knows how many bright young men desirous of a pleasant li have tried to copy him. That they have not succeeded is because, generally speaking, the simpler anything looks the more difficult it really is.

It is net so much what Mr. Grossmith does in the matter of singing and danc ing, but the way he does it that gives him so individual a position. No one else can roll extravagant polysyllables round the tongue quite as he can; no one else has quite the same unhurried,

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Part of Mr. Grossmith's sense huraour expresses itself in the clothes he wears on the stage, garments that are frequently not too completely preposter. ous for the youth of, say; Oxford," to consider with some seriousness; and here and there you can catch a hint of the Gallic in his methods,

A perfectly peaceful and composed

·of ample leisure, rather gentleman Angular in his moveirents, and with a walk that only most amazing person could be entitled to, George Grossmith hasested his easy way through musical

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That means, for one thing, that he must have danced with more pretty girls of the chorus than anyone else, not even excepting Mr." Seymour Hicks, in this country.-Daily Mail.

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