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There is a Magazine Cyclone carrying 12 
4x5 plates. In making an exposure, with 
one turn of a spring down goes the plate 
and up pops its number. A good machine, 
for snapshot work especially, owing to this 
lightning like change of plates. 
And there is a Korona. When I ex- 
amined this it made me think of the com- 
pactness of -a pocket book. and ~ the 
mechanism of a watch. An instrument for 
focusing, yet the dark cloth is done away 
with. A hood over the ground glass is 
released to take its place, at the touch of 
a spring. 
Then there is an Eastman that, like 
Pears’ soap, needs no recommendation, 
the name being a guarantee of the highest 
grade of excellence. 
What is meant by giving a plate, on 
which a snapshot exposure had been 
made, “instantaneous development?” This 
means to give it the proper development 
for an instantaneous exposure. The ver- 
iest amateur knows that means the weak- 
est developer and the slowest development 
used on any plate. 
Mr. Nehring, of 16 East 42d street, New 
York, seems bound to fill some of the 
long felt wants of the amateur. 
A few months ago he put on the market 
a new enlarging and copying lens. This 
fits between the combination of any dou- 
ble lens, and when so placed will enlarge 
any picture; or copy from the object taken 
with many enlargements. 
In August Recreation Mr. Nehring 
advertises a new snapshot telephoto lens 
guaranteed to convert any short bellows or 
folding camera into a long focus machine, 
making a Korona, a Kodak, a Wizard, or 
a Ray into a long focus camera suitable 
for taking birds, or big game from a dis- 
tance. This seems almost too good to be 
true, and few amateurs will be long with- 
out these valuable attachments. 
One wonders when manufacturers will 
learn to let the Eastman alone. They have 
a habit of going after infringements of 
their patents and copyrighted names, and a 
most disagreeable way of always establish- 
ing their rights. It will be remembered 
they won the spool-film case. They pre- 
vented an English firm from calling bicy- 
cles Kodaks and established their title 
to the exclusive right to the use of the 
word “Solio,” as applied to their print 
paper, after 3 adverse decisions in the 
lower courts. 
Their latest suit, in France, against the 
firm of Kreguner & Schmand, to establish 
their claim that “There is no Kodak but 
the Eastman Kodak,” resulted in a ver- 
dict so complete that it stands a unique 
example of the French characteristic of do- 
ing things brown when they do them. 
JT am sure all RecrEATION readers, Ko- 
dak owners especially, will enjoy the rich, 

RECREATION. 
juicy, golden brownness to which this ver- 
dict is done.’ The court fixed the East- 
mans’ damage at 1,500 francs, and ordered 
the defendants to destroy all circulars con- 
taining reference to the word Kodak, or 
to the Eastman Company; the defendants 
were made to pay all costs of the trial, and, 
with a genuine French flourish, the court 
ordered the 4 ublication of the verdict in 5 
Parisian and provincial papers, to be 
chosen by the plaintiffs and paid for by 
the defendants. I should like to see even 
a French verdict assume more rounded 
proportions of completeness than this. In 
the meantime would it not be well for 
manufacturers to remember there really is 
“No Kodak but the Eastman Kodak’? 
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ARMY. 
The number of American volunteers 
who carried cameras in the field, during 
the war in Cuba, was enormous. In sev- 
eral companies of infantry which I visited 
they averaged about 5 per cent.) Inthe 
engineer and signal corps, where the men 
had better facilities for transportation of 
baggage, the per cent. rose to 20 or more. 
Film cameras, as might be expected, 
were generally used, though many held to 
plate machines, despite their attendant dif- 
ficulties where space and weight were such 
important factors. In both film and plate 
cameras, 4x5 was practically the maxi- 
mum size, and the 3% x 3% divided honors 
with the smaller instruments of the folding 
pocket make. In plate cameras the maga- 
zine type was the most popular. 
From the standpoint of the ambitious 
photographer the almost exclusive use of 
the fixed focus principle was not very grat- 
ifying, yet it must be admitted that the 
fixed focus camera has been brought to a 
high state of perfection, as the work done 
with them by soldiers proves. 
From the film-makers’ point of view the 
soldiers’ cameras must have been emi- 
nently satisfactory, as the demand for sup- 
plies was always greater than the stocks of 
dealers. Passing through Cienfuegos, I vis- 
ited a supply house, and found the proprie- 
tor in despair at having laid in such a large 
stock of plates. Some American newspa- 
per man had advised him to prepare for 
brisk trade when the soldiers should come. 
Only a few detachments had then passed 
through the place, and, coming direct from 
Havana, were well supplied. On my return 
I called on him again, and found him in as 
great despair as before, but only because 
he could not supply more than a fraction 
of the demands made on him. A regiment 
of infantry and a battalion of engineers 
and signalmen had encamped near the 
town. So it was everywhere. All the deal- 
ers could do was to regret their orders had 
not been made larger, and promise the 
soldiers to have more supplies “manana.” 


