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Box Camera Can Easily: The Camera lucida, which resembled the Camera obscura only in name and function, could easily be carried about and was widely used by travelers. Basil Hall used it to document his American travels; in the preface to Forty Etchings Made with the Camera, Lucida in North America, in 1827 and 1828 (Edinburgh, 1829) he praised the instrument that freed the amateur "from the triple misery of Perspective, Proportion and Form," and concluded that although Wollaston, its inventor, had not discovered the "Royal Road to Drawing," he had "at least succeeded in Macadamising the way already known."But to many amateurs "Macadamising" was not enough.His venture was successful to the extent that he cleared more than a thousand dollars a month last year. Of course the wedding chapel had a bigger volume of marriages than. Any bright youngster who learns to make good use of a box Camera can easily earn all his own spending money in grammar school; a high school pupil who is adept at photography can start to save toward college; an enterprising youth, if skilled with a camera, can pay his way through college with his photography.
Much as a microscope allows man to expand a small area of space for more careful examination or measurement, the high-speed Camera can magnify a small segment of time. Similarly, the telescope compresses a large area of space so it can be viewed and analyzed more easily; the time-lapse Camera does the same with hours, months, or years. Present-day technology has enabled scientists to make exposures as short as several nanoseconds (1/1,000,000,000 of a second) and sequential recording of images at rates of 100 million per second. |
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