Modem Camera Cara Take Piety res In Dark
Claimed to be one of the most up-to-date cameras available, the Speed Graphic, recently imported from America by Mr R. D. Totman, of Whangarei, has all the modern refinements resulting from wartime advances in camera and lense construction.
The Graphic is a civil version of the wartime model, which was used universally by the American and Allied Information Service cameramen.
There are three separate lenses providing normal, wide-angle and telephoto focus, with separate shutters for each lens.
Night photography is provided for with a self-contained flash apparatus using batteries.
The lens speed may be up to 1/1000 of a second for photographing highspeed subjects. Enlarged photographs can be taken with the douole extension so that a postage stamp can be enlarged up to the full sin. x 4in film or film pack. An ingenious arrangement using a speed-lamp actuated by one of the shutter leaves, provides a flash of 1/10,000 of a second.
’ With this attachment it is possible to photograph people in complete darkness without their knowing that they have been photographed. The speed of the flash is too fast for 'the human eye to register
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Northern Advocate, 13 March 1948, Page 8
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