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Keeping A Camera: Interest in goldfish spread quickly; they were common in Europe by the late 1700's and in North America in the late 1800's. Although interest in keeping other types of tropical fish has caused goldfish keeping to decline in many countries, the showing, keeping, breeding, and selecting of goldfish strains are still especially popular activities in Japan and China.
Your editor will be thankful if you turn in only an occasional newsworthy picture, but if you will give him instead anything resembling complete coverage of your territory, you'll be his boy and he'll give you all kinds of breaks. To give such full coverage, which is your only guarantee of success, you'll have to operate according to a system. Simply keeping a Camera in your car, ready to shoot what you stumble into by accident, is not even a beginning at freelance news work.
Containing the New Optical Laws of the Camera Obscura or Daguerreotype, demonstrated that converging perpendiculars of the Camera 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. Many hand cameras were even equipped with levels to assure the viewer that he was holding the Camera horizontally. |
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