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Show Steiieoscoi'ic photography Is again becoming popular. The best way of sending photographic) films which havo not boen developed la by registered loiter. , Doiii.vo tho recent photographic contest con-test hold by Frank Losllo's Wookly over fivo thousand prints wcro received trom amatours. Anotbor contest Is now announced, an-nounced, to olosu December 1, andop'on to both professionals and amateurs. Ono thousand dollars will bo distributed in prizes. Ruby light or photographic purposes, In spito of all that has been said in favor fa-vor of-.orangc groen, continues to hold Its own in tho dark room, although uniny win. uso It cOmplaln of its effect on tbclr oyos. A remedy for thluhaa boon found in tho Introduction of a panu ot ground glass botweuu luo eyes and tho ruby A smpi.r: camera lias boon produce d for taking panoramic photographs on transparent films. Tho pulling of a string rotates tho camera through ono-fourth, ono-fourth, ono-lmlf, tbreo-fourths or a wbolo circle, tho film being simultaneously simultane-ously wound In an opposlto direction past a silt one-sixteenth of an Inch wldo placed boblnd tho lens. A fkw English (societies aro ondoavor-Ing ondoavor-Ing to pcrsuado' tho manufacturers, of lonsos to agrco upon a uniform standard stand-ard ot slzo and number of threads for Ions flanges, so that lenses of dliTorent makes will fit ono flango and save tho bother of carrying sovoral dlfforont Ions boards. Such a system would surely commend Itself to all amatours in this country. An English photographer claims to havo obtained a photograph In which tlio natural colors wero reproduced when tlio exposure was mado by ace Id on I just at tlio moment when there caiuoa blinding blind-ing flash of lightning, llo says tbat a frloud of his oncogol a colored plato undor un-dor similar circumstances, and tmlloves that oloctrlcity, has to do with photographing photo-graphing colors. ... j |