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RECREATION. 



AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



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

 J 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 : 



First prize: A Long Focus Korona Camera, 

 5x7, made by the Gundlach Optical Co.i 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, Plastig- 

 mat Uni'cum Shutter, and listed at $61.50. 



Third prize: A Royal Anastigmat Lens, 4 x 5, 

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

 V.; 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 «est pictures will each be awarded 

 one dozen 8 T. 10 Carbutt Plates, made by the 

 Carbutt Dry 1 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 Pl?tes. 



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. 



On 



lens. 



plate. 



paper. 



Printed on — 



Length of exposure, 



Then add any further information you 

 may deem of interest to the judges, or ta 

 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 as $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 the 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 

 zvay. Many otherwise fine pictures have 

 failed to win in the former competitions 

 because the makers did not heed this warn- 

 ing. 



HELPS OVER PHOTO HURDLES. 



Regarding blisters on cyco paper, if the 

 temperature of the various baths be kept 

 at one point the trouble will end. Cyco 

 prints taken from a hypo bath which has 

 been allowed to become warm, and doused 

 into a washing tray full of cold water, are 

 apt to blister. Changes from a warm de- 

 veloper to a freshly made hypo bath will 

 also cause blisters. Notice the fall in tem- 

 perature in a hypo bath the next time you 

 make it up. 



My plan for years has been to make a 

 saturated solution of hypo and have a 5 

 pint bottle full at all times, with a layer 

 of undissolved hypo on the bottom. Of this 

 solution I take 4 ounces and add 4 to 6 

 ounces of water slightly warm. This makes 

 it right and saves the annoying-delay. 



I do not agree with G. W. Damon in his 

 advice to use bromide. It is entirely too 

 rapid for the average amateur. I have 

 been using Carbutt's Vinco paper for years 

 and find it ideal for all kinds of negatives. 

 It is about 6 times as rapid as any of the 

 gaslight developing papers and* yields fine 

 prints. It allows more latitude both in ex- 

 posure and in development. The whites 

 are pure and do not get gray ami smoky, as 



