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CHAPTER VII. THE CAMERA IN MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY. We cannot yet call any photography ancient or even mediaeval. What is half a century in the progress of science ? But we may call modern that description of photography which has been practiced since the introduction of the dry plate. Amateur photography, which had been widely practiced in the " wet-plate" days, became after 1880 a universal hobby. With plates that received an impression, even in a poor light, in a fraction of a second, that might be kept for months before exposure, and for months again before development, nothing seemed easier than photography. The " easiness " was an illusion; but photography flourished, was carried into thousands of homes, and the fraternity of enthusiastic students grows larger every year. The census tables show some curious figures in the growth of photography as a trade, but it might be truly surprising could some census reveal the increase in the number of amateur photographers between 1883 and 1893. When photography began to be domesticated inthis way, much attention was directed toward new and better forms of camera. Niepce had begun with a cigar box. From this small beginning the camera grew into a complex instrument. This growth was regulated, not merely by the size of the plate and the field of operations, but also and especially by the power of the lens. And this brings us to that highly important feature of photographic operation, not yet touched upon here, that first and foremost object of mechanical interest â?” the lens itself. THE LENS. It will be interesting, before looking at the different lenses which ingenious men have invented, to think for a moment of those remarkable lenses which have been given us by nature â?” the lenses in our eyes. The eye is, indeed, a co...
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This is an OCR edition with typos.
Excerpt from book:
CHAPTER VII. THE CAMERA IN MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY. We cannot yet call any photography ancient or even mediaeval. What is half a century in the progress of science ? But we may call modern that description of photography which has been...