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skill shown in several recently received 

 from the Martin Post Card Company. 

 These are exceedingly good in idea and 

 in execution, and may easily become 

 classic in photographic fiction. 



These photographs are copyrighted 

 by the Martin Post Card Company. We 

 are grateful for permission to publish, 

 and also for courtesies from "Field and 

 Stream," New York City, regarding the 

 photograph on this page. 



We shall be glad to receive specimens 

 of similar fictitious photography, espec- 

 ially those made from natural objects. 



The Most Useful Lens. 



I am often questioned as to what to 

 buy for "the best all round lens." 



No one lens will do everything. As 

 well ask a golfer to get along with one 

 stick, or a dentist to do all his work 

 with one tool, as to expect a photo- 

 grapher to get along with one lens for 

 the best results with everything. You 

 must know your lenses as a horseman 

 knows his horses and be in sympa- 

 thetic touch with them. There are 

 some for speed and for the prancing 

 fancies of the photographer, while oth- 



ers are unexcelled for his regular, 

 routine, "heavy" work. One who is in 

 sympathetic touch with his lenses soon 

 gets in the habit of always using cer- 

 tain ones in that class of work for 

 which they are best adapted. This 

 class distinction may be almost wholly 

 determined by the owner, and may not 

 be a quality inherent in the lens. In the 

 editor's photographic work for this 

 magazine, the photomacrographs (that 

 is, medium sized objects under a low 

 magnification) are made by a three 

 inch and a five inch Celor. 



Some of the finest scenic and archi- 

 tectural w r ork has been done by a nine 

 and one-half inch Celor. The Dagors 

 have been used most advantageously 

 in laboratory work. Both of these 

 lenses are made by the C. P. Goerz 

 American Optical Company. 



The most convenient, all around lens 

 has been a No. 9 seven and one-half 

 inches in combination Protar. The 

 front is sixteen inches and the rear, 

 eleven and three-sixteenths. This gives a 

 wide range of focal lengths, as each 

 part may be used separately and to 

 good advantage. 



