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Show Exposures. Tho photographer was about to tako a picture, of a young woman, "It's so dnrk hero," ho said, "that I guess I'll glvo you about thirty seconds, nnd, drawing out tho slldo nnd removing tho enp, ho began to count In a measured meas-ured and mechanical tone. "Ono, two, three, four, flvo," nnd so on. When tho exposure was finished tho sitter said: "You gave moro than thirty seconds sec-onds to that plato. You counted very slow I'm suro It took you a full minute min-ute to county thlity." Tho photographer photogra-pher handed his watch to tho young woman. Ho snld: "I'll count thirty again. Time me." And ho mado the count exactly as before, and ho was just twenty-nlno seconds making .It. "Ono Bocond off not so bad. Near my old record, In fnct,' said tho photographer. photogra-pher. "Ten ycais ago, whon I mado moro pictures than I do to-day, I could, by counting, inuku exposures up to live minutes without being moro than ono second off. Usually I'd bo a second sec-ond under, hut over or under, It wns only by ono second that I'd bo out of tho way. But," ho ended, "this gift Is not lomarkahlo. Nearly every photographer has It. Nearly every ono of us can guess spaces of tlmo running from a half a Becond to five or six minutes with what Is, for all practical practi-cal purposes, perfect accuracy." Philadelphia Record. |