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RECREATION. 



AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



(p "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. 



THE ANNUAL' COMPETITION 

 Recreation has conducted 8 amateur 

 photographic competitions, all of which 

 have been eminently successful. The 9th 

 opens April 1st, 1904, and will close No- 

 vember 30th, 1904. 



Following is a list of prizes to be 

 awarded : 



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 4 x 5 Petite Century Camera, 

 with Goerz Anastigmat Lens and Century Shutter, 

 listed at $73. 



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., Roch- 

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



Seventh prize: A 12 x 12 Waterproof Wall 

 Tent, listed at $16.30. 



Eighth prize: A Tourist Hawkeye Camera, 

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

 ester, 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 

 a pair of chrome tanned leather driving or hunt- 

 ing gloves made by the Luther Glove Co., and 

 listed at $1.50. 



The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 

 a Laughlin Fountain Pen, listed at $1. 



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 



Printed on 



plate. 



paper. 



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 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 

 way. Many otherwise fine pictures have 

 failed to win in the former competitions 

 because the makers did not heed this warn- 

 ing. 



LANTERN SLIDE MAKING. 



G. T. HARRIS, IN PHOTOGRAPHY. 

 II. 



Slides will either be toned from a black 

 to a warm color or vice versa, and the 

 most satisfactory results in toning are those 

 obtained when a warm colored image is 

 toned down toward black. If black images 

 are toned to a decidedly warm color the 

 change is often accompanied by loss oi 

 quality, due to the length of time occupied 

 in toning, or to the strength of solutions 

 employed. 



To tone a warm colored image to darker 

 colors, platinum, gold sulphocyanide and 

 palladium may be employed; while to tone 

 a black image redder, one must employ 

 either copper or uranium ferricyanide, un- 

 less the image is converted into some haloid 

 and again developed. Of these various 

 toning agents the platinum bath for dark 

 colors and the ferricyanide for warm colors 

 are the most satisfactory. 



A sulphocyanide toning bath, similar to 

 that used for prints, may be employed to 

 tone a warm colored image, but the color 

 of the slide, if toned too far, becomes pur- 

 plish black, and it is questionable whether 

 such a color looks well in lantern slides. 

 "Photographic purples," as they have been 

 described, are best confined to silver prints, 



