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THE OriOK TO XATURE 



THE ROUGH GLASS FOR ONE LENS IN READINESS FOR GRINDING. 



Celor and use focal plane. Then I get 

 'em and no motion too, even if I toss 

 it up in the air. Can freeze 'em on the 



wing. 



"Is that really so?" Don't you use 

 your rectilinear for still objects?" 



"Rectilinear! Bosh. 



Ought to have 



MAKING CAREFUL ADJUSTMENTS. 



thrown it in the junk heap years before 

 I did." 



"And do you really think these Goerz 

 lenses are worth the price? Say, let me 

 look through one at the landscape, will 

 you ?" 



"'Worth the price?' Well, I should 

 say they are. Xo better anastigmats 

 made — though, as you've seen by the 

 catalogues, there are plenty that cost 

 even more." 



Then you carry the case and he the 

 camera and his choice lens, into the 

 back yard. There you get a view 

 across the valley, and for the first time 

 in your life you see through a real lens. 

 And quietly, without speaking, you 

 admit your years of misunderstanding, 

 and that the lens is worth the price. 



Then you go to see the Goerz people. 

 They spread out on a velvet covered 

 table the exquisitely finished glass and 

 brass that you now recognize as for use 

 and not merely to express pride of 

 possession, yet the cost, the "outrage/' 

 still lingers in your mind. 



You remark : "I suppose these will do 

 a little better work than the rectilinear 

 (mine is an exceptionally good one), 

 but why do you keep up the fancy 



prices? Now I paid only ." That 



is your last reference to use and cost of 

 your years of ignorant delusion. The 

 courteous attendant invites you to visit 



