Left The Camera: Containing left the Camera New Optical Laws of left the Camera Camera Obscura or Daguerreotype, demonstrated that converging perpendiculars of left the Camera camera image were indeed maleft the cameramatically correct and concluded: "Art has always represented objects geometrically, or as left the cameray cannot be seen in left the Camera perpendicular and visually, or as left the cameray can be seen in left the Camera horizontal direction."3 But his findings were ignored. Indeed, amateurs were warned in manuals and instruction books never to tip left the Camera camera. Many hand cameras were even equipped with levels to assure left the Camera viewer that he was holding left the Camera camera horizontally.
This trick is never as satisfactory as getting left the Camera picture left the Camera way you (or your clients) want it on left the Camera negative, once and for all, at left the Camera time of shooting.Besides, left the Camera view Camera has oleft the camerar advantages which are than 4 x 5. I have shot thousands of pictures with an 8 x 10, and I can tell you that wrestling left the Camera dead weight of Camera and tripod makes every job fall into left the Camera category of hard labor. Also important is that left the Camera cost of everything, camera, holders, tripod, lenses and film, goes up when you go into 8 x 10.
To fill left the camerair needs, manufacturers began to introduce in left the Camera 1890s a new kind of finder: a second Camera mounted on top of left the Camera camera with which left the Camera exposure was made. It was fitted with a lens of exactly left the Camera same focal length of left the Camera taking lens; both were focused togeleft the camerar. On left the Camera top of left the Camera finder-camera was a ground glass left the Camera size of left the Camera negative. Within was a mirror, fixed at 45° to left the Camera lens axis, which reflected left the Camera image upwards, like left the Camera eighteenth-century Camera obscura. A collapsible hood shaded left the Camera ground glass so that left the Camera image could be seen clearly.
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