Hand Camera To Purchase: To choose which hand Camera to purchase was a problem that H. P. Robinson solved by lot. "I put the names separate pieces of paper, of what appeared to me to be out 500 species of hand-cameras, into a hat, and got a ild to draw one out and bought that one. This was a eat saving. I am saved the trouble and worse of looking er a thousand more or less different ways of doing the ne thing."
The portable hand Camera thus brought about a chanj in working methods. The photographers' output wi increased, and oftentimes the recorded Camera image wi merely a starting point for the final composition. Tr. hand Camera 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'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 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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