The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-28
TUlSAN CAN TAKE
PICTURE IN DARK
Automatic Camera Made
by A. G. Krupnick Is
Great Invention
VALUABLE TO PAPERS
With Improved Kodak, Snap
Shot May BE Taken in
or Out Of Doors

While aricuco has boon 30 busy
during tho past decade, il has not
overlooked photography Nr ono
would have believed 10 yonra ago
that photographer would some day
bee Independent Of daylight. that hr
could take snapshots outdoors a.
midnight virtually regardless OF
weather conditions. Hs we'll Hs at
noon whom the sun was shining bril-
iiantly
Yet this Improvement has been
made possible, and one Of tho ma
chimes used for such picturo-tnking
is possessed by Alvin &. krupnick.
for several years staff photographer
for tho 81 Louis Post Dispatch and
other metropolitan newspapers, who
now lives In Tulsa and owns one Of
the most up-to.date Photographic
studios In the southwest. Ito ia To-
Gated at Third street and Cheyenne
avenue. In tho knobloCk- Woods
Laboratory building.
Battery ocratcs Kodak.
Tho new automatic camera pur-
chased by krupniclt iH operated
electrically. In si2o II Is similar tu
nm ordinary kodak. The small clcc-
tric battery ~ 40 concealed that IL
is not noticeable 10 the casual OBJ
server. Tho flash pan" In which
flashlight powder iH ignitcd iA con-
nocted by small wires to the camera n
shuttcr. As the trigger" of this
flash pan IL pulled. causing the
flash. the shutter operates stimuli
taneously 10y electricity, making "A
Hnapshot In a. manner exactly the
same as though the shutter clicked
In broad daylight
There In no bunglesomo tripod that
must he adjusted before the picture
is taken. The camera is held In
tho photographers hands and may
bo focused Instantly upon the OBJ
tcct ho wishes To photograph,
Even weather conditions need not
deter the photographer equipped
with one of these cameras, according
to krupnick. and tho exposure may
bo from one second To ono-thou-
sandth of "A second. with the aid Of
this machine he could photograph a
spirited horse race as well after
dark as ho could In the afternoon.
His studio is equipped with other
cameras for use In studio sittings or
for other work I'm which time is not
an object Then there ~ a machine
used for making Photographic on
largements from films or plates, ro-
gardlees of their aizo. The appara-
tus makes possible the enlargement
of n small kodok picture to one OF
life size--and requires only IA few
minutes for the operation. With this
equipment. krupnick may take n
picture, develop the plate and print
it IN 80 minutes.
krupnick II combination" In
door and outdoor photographs. He
has taken numerous photographs for
use In Tulsa newspapers and In ad-
dition IN "a STAFF photographer for
several large eastern newspapers,
covering" the midcontirfent oil
fields Tor them and obtaining photo
graphs of persons and events that
arc Interesting to oastorners.
Has Snapped Big Men.
When President Harding visited
oklahoma krupniCk went to Ponca
city In an airplanc furnished by the
Curtlss Southwest Airplane company,
piloted by -. \. Mcintyre. general
manager, AMI snapped" the prcsi-
dent In several different poses, These
pictures were printed In Tho World
the following morning.
During the Clara Smith IInmon
tiihi at sfiUEih'Nt hiNHIll'h WIS an
interested spectator. No photographs
were allowcd-but ono was there
And Krupnick II the only one that
succeeded In obtaining a picture of
the courtroom showing the defend
ant, Mrs. Jake Ilamon, legal lights
for both sides. and spectators. lilo
obtained many other pictures con.
ncctod with the trial that were de-
MED othor photographers lie went
10 Ardmore tc obtain photographs --
and he returned with them. Some
were printed In Tulsa newspapers
and others In New York and other
eastern publications.
As "A city editor orders reporter
20 "go and get story Krupnlck
issued orders to himself to "go and
get photographs that several mil
lion people Interested In the Hamon
case might have knowledge of tho
Interior of the crowded courtroom,
Tulsa impressed me az "A young
mans town" he explained, "and
that's the reason came here
hope that some day l may possess
the biggest and best Photographic
studio In the United states sand II
realize my ambition the studio viii
be located right hero in Tulsa"