Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1892 — SNAP SHOTS. [ARTICLE]

SNAP SHOTS.

The Boston Camera club gave an exhibi tion of prints recently, and then off ere. i them for sale. The scheme met with fiuau cial success. Sc;. N cameras, set in gentlemen’s scarfs are bc- ' —tite popular. Iti.wom.Vr fui . j;a , t pictures ape tuiien witu the little hi it*. The “K -ret” is the title to a new camera r has bten placed upon the market n -sly. It is a neat little box, w : ly four poumia when loaded ?:•- MM. :, jiosures. It is not an easy task to secure good portraits, au- . ractioe is needful tu order to guiu fine ■ suits Those of the amateurs who have made a study of this line of work, however, have become fascinated with it. At the exhibition in Vienna of amateur photographers of all lands, airs. N. G. Bartle! t, of Chicago, has the distinction of having four of her pictures hung on the wails of the gallery. Among those who eetit photographs were theTtfhcess of Waies and other distinguished personages. The surveyor general of Canada, Mr. Do ville, hi mi adopted a novel method of sur veylug in the Rocky mountain region of the Dominion. It is to photograph the country by a specially designed camera. He considers the photographs as accurate as a plan laid down by means of a protractor. Professor George R. Cromwell makes double photographs of the same person by affixing a box to the front of the lens, having two doors arranged for dividing the space. First one is opened and one-half of the plate exposed, then the other is opened and on the second half of the plate the second picture is taken.