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Poppelsdorfer Avenue are two of the attractions 

 here. Proceeding to the Ahr Valley by train a 

 visit was made to Ahrweiler, a walk of seven-and- 

 a-half miles was taken through the imcomparable 

 soeoery of this valley. From Ahrweiler, with its 

 aucieut church (1275), towers, and walls, on to 

 Wnlporzheim, and from here the specially romantic 

 character of the Gau begins, a real paradise for 

 artists. Thence passing onto the " Bunte Kun," 

 a single ridge of slate rock, and in the midst of 

 the chaos of rocks which pen cannot describe, its 

 fantastic forms now bold and terrible, and now 

 teeming with lovely scenes, forward through the 



poetic villages of Marienthal and Dernau, Rech 

 was reached, and then on to Mayschoss and 

 Lochmuhle, here masses of rock tower gloomily 

 over the traveller as he proceeds through the 

 narrow path, and ascends the footpath through 

 the vineyards to the cross, then passing the Casi le 

 of Altenahr. By train to Cologne, with its 

 Cathedral (the most magnificent gothic edifice in 

 the world) and the numerous old churches built 

 between the 10th and 16th centuries, Gurzenach 

 (l-t52). Town Hall, which contains a lOth century 

 Italian Porch, Hansa Saal (14th century), an ideal 

 place for architectural photographers. 



SPECIAL MEETING— MAY 14th, 1902. 



'PHOTOGRAPHIC FACTS.'*~By Mr. F. O. Bynoe. 



Under the above title a very interesting lecture 

 was given ia the Foresters' Hall, on Wednesday 

 evening, May 14, by Mr. F. O. Bynoe, of Messrs. 

 K. and J. Beck, Ltd., London. There was a very 

 good attendance, the large hall being practically 

 full, and the chair was taken by the President of 

 the Society, Mr. Sidney Harvey, F.I.C.. F.C.S., 

 who, in opening the meeting, rem irked that so 

 large an attendance was a su9icient proof ot the 

 great interest taken in the subject on which their 

 lecturer would speak, and also testified to the fact 

 that photography had becom ; an Hssent ial adjunct 

 to scientific research. Connected as he was with 

 their Seciety he might say that Canterbu-y was 

 doing a great deal of very valuible work in this 

 direction, his predecessor in otiice, the late Mr. 

 Stephen Horsley.didagrandworb in this direction, 

 !ind he (the speaker) was glad to see that Mr. 

 Horsley's good ex tmple was bearing good fruit 

 amongst the members, as many were now working 

 on similar lines, and had achieved considerable 

 success. They would therefore see that photo- 

 graphy had not become a dead letter with the 

 Society (applause). In reference to the lecture 

 they were to hear, he wished to say that Mr. 

 Bynoe was an expert as well as a lecturer, who, in 

 addition to what he had to s/iy.had some extremely 

 ingenuous mechauical diagrammatic slides to ex- 

 plain difficult points. 



Mr. Bynoe hoped that, although the title of the 

 lecture sounded somewhat dry. he would be able 

 to make it anything but so. He treated the sub- 

 ject ia such a manner as to retain the attention, 

 not only of the expert phocographer, but also thn 

 veiiest novice and those who only attended because 

 they liked to see pretty pictures. He proceeded 

 to explain how a photographic picture was taken, 

 the action of waves of light and how it was possi- 

 ble by means of an old cigar box and a bit of thin 

 iron plate, with only the tiniest hole in the plate 

 instead of the lens, for any boy to take a photo- 

 graphic negative from which a good picture, if 

 proper care were taken, might be obtained. In 

 fact these pin-bole cameras are made sold, and 

 used in large numbers. He had a splendid 

 mechanical diagram tj illustrate the movement 

 of a wave of light. Speaking of a pin-hole camera, 

 and the necessarily long exposure re<xuired with 



so 8m^.ll an orifice for the rays of light to pass 

 through, naturally led him to speak of instan- 

 taneous exposures and the explanation that by 

 the term instantaneous was meant an exposure of 

 a fraction of a second ; a minate, or more, being 

 spoken of as a " time " exposure. Having given 

 an explanation of how very short exposures were 

 tested, he showed wha"^ might be termed useful 

 " tips " in hand camera work, one of these being 

 that at the tim-^ of miking an exposure the 

 operator should stand firmly on one leg. steadyine 

 the body with the other, and that the trigger 

 should be touched whilst the operator was ex- 

 pelling his breath, not whilst inhaling it. He 

 advocated for general all-round work a fixed focus 

 rigid box type hand camera, and explained the 

 advantages of films as against glass plates. He 

 explained his firm's cameras and appliances, men- 

 tioning that they had successfully met foreign 

 competition by bringing out their F.O.P. guinea 

 ** Frena " magazine camera of excellent quality 

 and absolutely reliable changing arrangement. 

 This camera holds either forty flat films or twelve 

 glass plates. Th<^ firm were turning them out in 

 thousands by machinery. Next came a very inter- 

 esting cli it on lenses, and the explanation, by 

 means ot" an extremely cute mechanical lantern 

 slide, of the principles involved in the making of 

 a teleplioto lens ; also it advantages in photograph- 

 ing distmt objects. One of the specimens ex- 

 hibited of the advantiiges was a grand lantern 

 slide view of Windsor Castle, taken from a spot 

 three miles away, at the wish of the Eraperor of 

 Germany. A splendid selecriou of views as thrown 

 on tie screen exhibiting the excellence of the 

 firm's Beck-Steinheit I'^rthostigmat lenses, which 

 g-ive microscopic detiaition devoid of astigmatism 

 and covering the plate to the very corners. The 

 views of "Old Paris" and "Chateau d'Eau," in 

 ihe recent Paris Exhibition, " Mafeking Day in 

 Londcn." the City of York as seen from a balloon, 

 mountain scenery, animals, etc., were triumphs in 

 protograph taking, and called forth well-deserved 

 applause. 



At the conclusion the Chairman expressed the 

 hope that Mr. Bynoe would pay them another 

 visit, and in the final words of the ballad of "Jehu 

 Gilpin," " may we be there to see." 



