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Show I ACTION SNAPS ! . -. 4, s? ; wf.; m. f5ii What actionf Must have taken a fast shutter to stop it! Well, no don't tell anybody, but it was snapped at 125 second, approximately box-camera shutter speed. The athlete simply held still for a moment. pRETTY soon the weather will be opening up, schools will start ,. on their Spring athletic programs, small . boys will be knocking bat-9 bat-9 itered-baseballs around on vacant "lots and your youngster, very ,. likely, will be among them. ,r These amateur athletics are excellent ex-cellent material for your camera, whether it is a box camera sueh as most of us have, or one of the new high-speed miniatures. ' ' ' . ..Of course, with a box camera, you , cannot always expect to"stop" sapid . action. That is the field of the cameras cam-eras with high-speed lenses and Any athlete, proud of his muscles and uniform, should be glad to "hold it" a moment for you. And small boys on neighborhood baseball diamonds dia-monds cheer when they see a camera cam-era coming. They'll hold any pose you want them to. The low viewpoint is. best for action ac-tion pictures, with the camera tilted, slightly upward so that the' sky forms the picture background. Try It, with a young pitcher "winding, up" or at the end of his delivery. He can hold his position and expression long enough foj" yon - - to snap the picture and the effect is one of genuine rapid action, . "Action" snaps of this sort not only turn out to be good pictures, but also provide plenty of fun. Try, some, and see how easily the camera cam-era (and your friends) can be fooled. . John van Guilder snutters. aut there s no reason why you can't picture action poses . . some of them so realistic that people who see them would vow; .the pictures pic-tures were high-speed "stop-action" anaps. ,.:!),.H , |