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CCHarrison
14-Mar-2014, 12:29
Please see
http://antiquecameras.net/blog.html
Thanks
Dan
Snippet of article below
http://antiquecameras.net/images/800_hl2a.jpg
Amedeus
14-Mar-2014, 19:59
Wonderful to read ...
Steven Tribe
15-Mar-2014, 05:05
So easy to read!
There may be slight problem, as the British Journal of Photography is still very much alive and may not be too pleased about lengthy extracts - even from as far back as 1922!
goamules
15-Mar-2014, 05:53
In the US, anything published from 1923 to 1963 are in the public domain. In the UK, I don't know, but hobby magazines are typically scanned and put online from this period. By Google and others. I know I've read a lot of the BJP online already.
CCHarrison
15-Mar-2014, 05:55
Steven
The information has been made available via The Royal Photographic Society... This can be used... but thanks for the concern. I did however forget to credit the source - so I have done that now.
Many thanks
Dan
PS - I have found a few errors in the text, but I do enjoy how pro-British the piece and anti-German it is in terms of optical prowess. The French vs. German vs. English vs American drive for optical supremecy !!
Dan, can you clarify the source, the BJP was a weekly not monthly publication until quite recently. So was it in a weekly edition or the 1922 or more likely 1923 BJP Almanac (it may have been in both as the Almanacs had a digest of the best from during the year).
Thanks for posting, I've yet to find a 1922 or 1932 Almanac, they tend to be expensive.
Ian
CCHarrison
15-Mar-2014, 06:59
Ian - thanks for your post....
Sorry - this is from the The Photographic Journal of the Royal Photographic Society, not BJP.... I had BJP on the brain, but its from the TPJ of RPS.... Nov 1922.
Dan
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CCHarrison
15-Mar-2014, 07:00
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I think it's interesting to read how back then they were still using f-stops to measure their aperture :D
Steven Tribe
15-Mar-2014, 11:55
Dan, it does read like a transcript of speech as well!
Dan, it does read like a transcript of speech as well!
It's quite possibly a lecture given at the RPS.
Ian
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