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RECREA TION. 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY W. 0. LOTT. 



A STEREOPTICON VIEW MADE WITH A SINGLE LENS. 



Trenton, Canada. 



Editor Recreation: I feel impelled to 

 write you a few lines, on behalf of the great 

 army of amateur photographers who use 

 cameras taking 3J/2 x 3 l / 2 inch or 3^2 x 3^4 

 inch plates. 



Such pictures are rather small to be in- 

 teresting, when mounted in the usual way. 

 I mount mine side by side (duplicate prints) 

 and view through a common stereoscope. 

 The result is simply great. The perspec- 

 tive, atmosphere or solidity, as you choose 

 to call it, is all right — opticians and theorists 

 to the contrary notwithstanding. 



I should like your readers, using these 

 small cameras, to try my plan and see that 

 with these little instruments results as sat- 

 isfactory may be obtained as with an 8 x 10 

 camera. 



I send you 2 prints from a negative taken 

 haphazard, from my collection, which I 

 should like you to publish in such a form 

 that your readers could test them for them- 

 selves. I used an Eastman Red Seal plate, 

 and exposed 2 seconds. 



I take great interest in your amateui 

 photo department and should like you to 

 enlarge it first, when making any change 

 in your magazine. 



Willet O. Lott. 



I notice in September number of Rec- 

 reation, Mr. S. W. Barker, of Concord, N. 

 H., sent you a composite picture of 3 ex- 

 posures. I enclose you one, also showing 

 3 exposures, made by a No. 4 Eastman Car- 

 tridge kodak. The first exposure was made 

 by me, on a St. Bernard dog, belonging to 

 a friend. The second was made by a friend 

 of mine, in my office, who was looking over 

 the kodak and accidentally snapped it. This 

 shows the office windows and partitions, 



and the corrugated iron ceiling, which is 

 the fine lines above the window, on the tree. 

 The next picture was taken at my friend's 

 summer cottage, at Owasco Lake, looking 

 toward the lake. 



E. D. Parker, Auburn, N. Y. 



A TRIPLE EXPOSURE. 



There is a movement to secure from the 

 Ohio legislature an appropriation for a de- 

 tailed topographical map of that State. The 

 cost of such a map is estimated at from 

 $200,000 to nearly $1,000,000. Among the 

 advantages claimed for the map is that it 

 would be of great service in the construc- 

 tion of roads. 



