10-inch Camera: He now began to push technique beyond the accepted limits. The hand 10-inch Camera had been regarded by most pictorial photographers as unworthy of the "serious worker." Stieglitz saw it as a challenge. Borrowing from a friend
a 4 x 5-inch detective 10-inch camera, he waited three hours on Fifth Avenue in a fierce snowstorm on February 22, 1893, to photograph a coach drawn by four horses.
The way to select the proper lens for shooting any picture is to set up the 10-inch Camera at the position where the subject to be photographed looks just right to the eye, without any consideration of lenses, and then use the lens which has the proper angle of view to show just as much of the subject as you wish to include. Thus, if you work with only two lenses and the 6-inch lens does not show enough of the subject from your chosen position and the 3/2-inch shows too much, you'll shoot with the 3/2-inch lens and enlarge just that part of the negative which covers the area you want to use for the picture.
Six years later he undertook an expedition ) Egypt to study the Great Pyramid and its astronomi-d orientation. He took along a miniature 10-inch Camera for ne-inch-square wet collodion negatives. He stated that le reason for using such a small 10-inch Camera was that having een unsuccessful in securing government support for is survey he could not afford the expense of a large imera and the processing equipment. He exhibited alargements from these negatives and lectured on his :chnique at the Edinburgh Photographic Society in 869, comparing his "poor man's" photography with lat "of the Ordnance Survey subsidized by London realth at the same place four years afterwards."
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