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RECREATION. 



AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



"For sport the lens is better than the gun." 

 I wish to make this department of the utmost 

 use to amateurs. I shall, therefore, be glad to 

 answer any questions and to print any items sent 

 me by practical amateurs relating to their experi- 

 ence in photography. 



8th ANNUAL COMPETITION, 

 Recreation has conducted 7 amateur 

 photographic competitions, all of which 

 have been eminently successful. The 8th 

 opened April 1st, 1903, and will close No- 

 vember 30th, 1903. 



Following is a list of prizes to be 

 awarded: f 



First prize: A Long Focus • Korona Camera, 

 5x7, made by the Gundlach Optical Co., Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., fitted with a Turner : Reich Anastig- 

 mat Lens, and listed at $85. 



Second prize : A No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak, 

 made by the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. 

 Y., fitted with a Bausch & Lomb Lens, Plastjg- 

 mat Unicum Shutter, and listed at $61.50. 



Third prize: A Royal Anastigmat Lens, 4x5, 

 made by the Rochester Lens Co., Rochester, N. 

 Y.; listed at $36. 



Fourth prize A Waterproof Wall Tent, 12 x 16, 

 made by Abercrombie & Fitch, New York, and 

 listed at $32. 



Fifth prize: An Al- Vista-Panoramic Camera, 

 made by the Multiscope and Film Co., Burlington, 

 Wis., and listed at $30. 



Sixth prize: A No. 3 Focusing Weno Hawk- 

 eye Camera, made by the Blair Camera Co., 

 Rochester, N. Y., and listed at $27.50. 



Seventh prize: A high grade Fishing Reel, 

 made by W. H. Talbot, Nevada, Mo., and listed 

 at $20. 



Eighth prize: A Tourist Hawkeye Camera, 

 4x5, and made by the Blair Camera Co., Roches- 

 ter, N. Y., and listed at $15. 



Ninth prize: A Bristol Steel Fishing Rod, made 

 by the Horton Mfg. Co., Bristol, Conn., and 

 listed at $8. 



Tenth prize: A pair of High Grade Skates, 

 made by Barney & Berry, Springfield, Mass., and 

 listed at $6. 



The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 

 one dozen 8 x 10 Carbutt Plates, made by the 

 Carbutt Dry Plate Co., Wayne Junction, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 

 one dozen 5x7 Carbutt Plates. 



The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 

 one dozen 4x5 Carbutt Plates. 



A special prize : A Goerz Binocular Field Glass, 

 listed at $74.25, will be given for the best picture 

 of a live wild animal. 



Subjects are limited to wild animals, 

 birds, fishes, camp scenes, and to figures 

 or groups of persons, or animals, repre- 

 senting in a truthful manner shooting, fish- 

 ing, amateur photography, bicycling, sail- 

 ing or other form of outdoor or indoor 

 sport or recreation. Awards to be made 

 by 3 judges, none of whom shall be com- 

 petitors. 



Conditions: Contestants must submit 2 

 mounted prints, either silver, bromide, 

 platinum or carbon, of each subject, which, 

 as well as the negative, shall become the 

 property of Recreation. Negatives not to 

 be sent unless called for. 



In submitting pictures, please write sim- 

 ply your full name and address on the back 



of each, and number such prints as you 

 may send, 1, 2, 3, etc. Then in a letter ad- 

 dressed Photographic Editor, Recreation, 

 say, for instance: 



No. 1 is entitled . 



Made with a camera. 



lens. 



On a - 



plate, 

 paper. 



Printed on — 



Length of exposure, 



Then add any further information you 

 may deem of interest to the judges/' or to, 

 other amateur photographers. Same as to 

 Nos. 2, 3, etc. 



This is necessary in order to save post- 

 age. In all cases where more than the 

 name and address of the sender and serial 

 number of picture are written on the back 

 of prints I ^am required to pay letter post- 

 age here. I have paid as high an $2.50 on 

 a single package of a dozen pictures, in ad- 

 dition to that prepaid by the sender, on ac- 

 count of too much writing on th; prints. 



Any number of subjects may be sub- 

 mitted. 



Pictures that may have been published 

 elsewhere, or that may have been entered 

 in any other competition, not available. No 

 entry fee charged. 



Don't let people who pose for you look 

 at the camera. Occupy them in some other 

 way. Many otherwise fine pictures have 

 failed to win in the former competitions 

 because the makers did not heed this warn- 

 ing. 



VELOX PRINTING. 



Now that the printing papers of the velox 

 type are so popular, a few suggestions as to 

 their successful manipulation may be of 

 value to amateurs who are vainly trying to 

 produce good prints by their use. It was 

 more than one year before I could be rea- 

 sonably sure of obtaining 10 good prints 

 from a package of velox. No doubt the 

 personal equation had much to do with 

 this lack of success, but I am convinced 

 that had some one told me a few things 

 which I had to learn by costly experi- 

 ence, my progress would have been much 

 more rapid. 



To be successful with velox, one must be 

 especially careful as to the quality of sul- 

 phite of soda used in the developer. The 

 most expensive article is not necessarily the 

 best, for this purpose at least. I have had 

 good results with sulphite costing 8 cents a 

 pound, and on the other hand could do 

 nothing with another make for which I paid 

 35 cents a pound, though both seemed 

 equally pure and free from sulphate. When 

 you find a brand that works satisfactorily 

 stick to it. The other chemicals are less 

 important; nevertheless, it is not good' econ- 

 omy to use cheap ones. 



