The sun., 1900-12-09
NEW KINDS OF CAMERAS.
COSTLY INsTRUMEErS MADE ron
AMATEUk PHOTO0RAPHERS.
The Prsfsssionai's Ossdoor Field Invaded
Many Cameras for Bicycles -Remark.
able Results Obsained With Cheap Gam.
eras - LsnG Distance PhotoIrAphx.

Tbe Presssdonh's Outdoor Field Invaded
Many Cameras for Bicyoiss 90 Remark.
able Rssuits Obtained With Cheap Gam.
erss - Lens Distance Photography.
or all the popular pastincs OF the last few
years none has endured with moro pcrsistencv
than amateur photography Besides tho
fascination OF the thing itself. ono reason for
this lies In the fact that the art has progressed
rapidly and kept moro continuously unrolling
new vlstas Of possibilities Once tho amateur
photographer got Interested In his work. thers
always was something new developed or pend-
ing development 10 keep his attention n1ed
and his liking for the amusement renewed.
That there Is comparatively little falling on
IN the zeal OF the amateurs Is shown by the
great stocks the dealers In cameras and
Photographic supple. are lavlng In for the
Christmas ard New Years trade One
marked difference In tho demand for cameras
Is the finer quality OF lenses and apparatus
required. This simply means that the ANA
teurs have many of them now become skilled
photographers and are no longer satisfied
with the crude instruments with which they
began to learn the business The cost Of
cameras has verv materially decreased IN the
last few years, Vet the price OF a fine instru-
nent must necessarily remain high. and these
higher priced ones are now In much greater
demand than they ever were before. A Mas
sau street dealer sold one to Princeton anal
tenr last week that cost $500. although this. o6
course. was very exceptional sale.
The amateur activity Is by no means pleas.
Ing TO the professional photographer. and hS
habitually speaks with fine scorn Of tho ANA
teur. but as a matter OF fact many OF the
amateurs Of few years experience arc vastly
superior In their work to the professional
himself. 1t is in outdoor work. the photo>
graphing Of private houses Of yachts and
yachting parties. of excursion and picnic
groups. Of college classes and college athletid
teams and kindred subjects that the profess
sional has suffered most at the hands Of the
amateur In the matter OF taking portraits
the inroads have not been 50 great. although
even in this field the professional photograph
gallery. unless il be a very noted one. Is nee
doing the work II once did.
Here In New York. however. there 10 one
field Of outdoor photographing in which tho
amateur does not intruds very much. THAT
is the taking Of pictures OF the towering sky.
scrapers. You cannot get a good picture
OF the skyscraper from the street level and
the amateur is generally averse TO doing
much climbing. For instance. when the
pa.sersS,6y recently saw couple Of pho
Pnul's Church and busy at work there. they
knew very wen that the photosraphers were
were professionals getting a picture Of the
lofty Park Row ,BpldinS, and the coping q
st Pnuls Church happened 10 be about ths
Fully ,one-half ef the smaller =, cameras
nov sold; are what Is s.. called in the trade
in box much fiatter than that used with
like results. Thi; difference in form Is, ihqs
isss Sn0u st n2afk osker smaller smaller ~ cySe .s
a
venient. II has about come 10 the pass that
a bicycle that is used for mere pleasure riding
IL has camera swung from sofne part of
its anatomy. as anybody may see on fns
G dy & Ry 0 large
says says Il that fully one-haf Of his holiday stock
Of cameras is or the cycle variety.
while the higher priced cameras are mora
in demand among amateurs tfap they were
some time ago the prodicti1n Of the chearer
fallen fai % on IN fact some some; very YER u remarfs able
results have been obtained within the past
year or two In the production Of cameras
camera that will do very fair work for fr.m
~ to $3.50 while the latest novelty IL. this
is sold for 80 cents in fact one dealer used
this little camera To give away as nm adver-
usement and very eood % la advertssmsns rs,o.r
Many amateurs have devoted good deal
Of attention of late 10 the matter OF tsle-
pictures duo, Of objects n.sa
printed concerning this branch Of photo
graphic work In certain of the foreign mag
azincs the descriptive articles being ac-
companied by reproductions OF photographs
which showed some very remarkable results.
The clock dial in public building in Eng
land was photographed ut a distance So
great recently that with the naked eye the
dial itself appeared as mere dim disk while
in the photograph the hour and the minute
could be distinctly read from tho hands.
Any camera that has a long enough accor-
dion attachment 10 allow Of its being
stretched out to something Ike telescope
length can be used for this purpose. a single
and not double lens Is employed.
One of the latest Developments OF the
camera in small sizes H. an instrument thnt
will take pictures of motion IL is. In other
words nothing more nor less than the at
tachment of the bioGraph mechanism on
a greatly reduced scale. One of these CAM
eras can be carried in, the hand as readily
as the ordinary kodak. and the amateur
will be able TO take picture or any scene
course TO reproduce this picture the cor.
responding machinery must be maintained
At home unless. as is already tho case with
the lar ger bioaraphs the bnnd camera Is
provided with mechanism 20 project tho
picture upon the screen ms well as take IT.
A. matter OF fact the amateurs have not
yet made intimate acquaintance with this
particular form Of camera and only COM
paratvely few OF them have been produced
Probably the next step forward In ths
matter OF inventions touching Photographic
These will be made much simpler than they
by those who do amateur work