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RECREATION. 



I was strongly tempted to send the print 

 to the editor of Recreation as conclusive 

 proof that there are photo hogs as well as 

 fish and game hogs. I am not sure photo 

 hogs are not the worst. Fish and game 

 hogs, as a rule, break only the laws of 

 common decency and fair play. These nast 

 photographing hogs break also the State 

 laws for bird protection and would be liable 

 to heavy fines were the officers watching 

 their business sharply. 



Thousands of amateurs are still rushing 

 from one developer to another, and still 

 bewailing their failures. Why not settle 

 on pyro and stay there? It is the best. It 

 is the good old standby of successful pro- 

 fessionals and amateurs. Here is an argu- 

 ment for pyro that I regard as a clincher : 

 In the printed instructions accompanying 

 the various brands of plates put out by 

 every great plate factory in the United 

 States the basis of all developers recom- 

 mended by the manufacturers to be used on 

 their plates is pyro. The New York Dry 

 Plate Co., Eastman, and Carbutt use it. 

 When a man invests his fortune in a dry 

 plate company he secures expert chemists 

 who experiment and test until they know 

 beyond doubt the formulas that will bring 

 from the plates the best possible results. 



The new Reflex camera catalogues and 

 advertisements are most interesting. They 

 make one long to own one of the cameras. 

 From the cuts and catalogues it seems as if 

 there could be but one serious criticism on 

 these instruments. As they are so strongly 

 recommended for bird and animal work, 

 there should be an attachment for releasing 

 the shutter by bulb, for the obvious reason 

 that if one can only photograph such nests, 

 birds and animals as he can secure with a 

 hand release he is deprived of many good 

 opportunities. If there is an attachment for 

 bulb release there is no end to the locations 

 where a camera may be hidden in the 

 haunts of birds and beasts and rare pictures 

 taken while the subjects pose unconsciously 

 in natural attitudes. I think of asking the 

 Reflex people to make this change. 



New camera for flashlight pictures, the 

 exposure to be made by the objects taken, 

 consists of a perfectly light-tight box, into 

 which the camera is set, lens open and slide 

 drawn ready to take the exposure. The pan 

 of flash powder is placed on top of the box 

 and covered with a thin paper to protect 

 it from damp. It is fired by a small elec- 

 tric battery. A thread is stretched from 

 the door of the box across the runway, 

 and at the lightest pull of the thread the 

 door flies open, makes connection, fires the 

 flash and drops again into position. This 

 sounds complicated, but the instrument is 

 simple. It may be set out before dark and 



if exposed during the night it is safe in- 

 side the light-tight box. 



A few months ago I said, "Four new 

 cameras will soon be on the market," and 

 the time has arrived. The new McDonough 

 color camera is completed, the factory is 

 well under way in Chicago, and lecturers 

 are showing the camera and its workings 

 to interested audiences all over the coun- 

 try. In less than a year we can all own 

 a color camera. Several of the last issues 

 of Recreation have advertised the Al- 

 Vista, a revolving panoramic camera that 

 takes an extensive landscape at one sweep 

 of the lens. Eastman has a swing front 

 that is excellent for racing and athletic con- 

 tests, and the cellograph clips off the ex- 

 posures at the rate of 27 to the second. 



Ohio carried off the palm in another ama- 

 teur photo contest last week. She does this 

 frequently. She did it at the Salon of Pho- 

 tographic Art in Chicago, where some of 

 the most remarkable photographs ever 

 made were on exhibition. Soon you will 

 hear her boasting herself the photographic 

 art State of the Union. Since Ohio fur- 

 nishes buckeyes to console the rheumatiz 

 of the world and more presidents than any 

 other State, she might be content to let 

 some other State knock down the photo- 

 graphic persimmon. 



An Eastern magazine is asking its read- 

 ers to vote a $20 gold award to the most 

 popular advertisement in its June number. 

 It would hustle one to select the most popu- 

 lar advertisement in any number of Recre- 

 ation. They are all handled with such skill 

 and attractiveness as to be works of art in 

 their line. 



C. P. Goerz has, by the increase of his 

 business in this country, been compelled 

 to establish a branch of his Berlin factory 

 here to accommodate his American custom, 

 and has placed it at Yonkers. The popu- 

 larity of the Goerz lens is something won- 

 derful. 



THE WET PROCESS FOR AMATEURS. 



BY E. D. R. 



Buy a glass of suitable size, say 5x7. 

 Make or buy a light-tight box with hinged 

 cover, in which to place, and always keep, 

 the glass bath. Procure" a dipper of glass 

 or rubber. One may be made by cutting a 

 piece of glass 2 inches wide and sufficiently 

 lc*ng to project beyond the upper edges of 

 the bath. To one end cement with paraffin 

 or wax a cross piece of plate glass. Fasten 

 to the front of your box a stick to act as a 

 support to hold bath at a suitable angle. 



Buy some pure nitrate of silver, 1 pint of 

 acetic acid, No. 8 ; 1 pound of protosul- 

 phate of iron, and a few ounces each of 



