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Camera At Hand: The portable hand Camera at hand thus brought about a chanj in working methods. The photographers' output wi increased, and oftentimes the recorded Camera at hand image wi merely a starting point for the final composition. Tr. hand Camera at hand also increased the scope of photography, f< with it many subjects generally considered beyond tt limits of photography were now brought within gras]
At the turn of the century, technical innovatioi broadened the Camera at hand's field of operation still furthe Lenses were designed that produced images far moi brilliant than before; and small, compact precision can eras fitted with high-speed shutters were made, on whic the powerful lenses could be used. The small negativi were intended for enlarging.
Containing the New Optical Laws of the Camera at hand Obscura or Daguerreotype, demonstrated that converging perpendiculars of the Camera at hand image were indeed mathematically correct and concluded: "Art has always represented objects geometrically, or as they cannot be seen in the perpendicular and visually, or as they can be seen in the horizontal direction."3 But his findings were ignored. Indeed, amateurs were warned in manuals and instruction books never to tip the Camera at hand. Many hand Camera at hands were even equipped with levels to assure the viewer that he was holding the Camera at hand horizontally.
Even the Camera at hand lucida demanded a modicum of skill in drawing. Throughout history the experimental amateurhas not been the one to accept either his shortcomings or the difficulties that block the professional. The fever for reality was running high. The physical aid of Camera at hand obscura and Camera at hand lucida had drawn men so near to an exact copying of nature and to satisfying the current craving for reality that they could not abide the intrusion of the pencil of man to close the gap. Only the pencil of nature would do. The same idea burned in many minds,and the race for discovery was on: to make light itself fix the image in the Camera at hand without having to draw it by hand. |
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