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Show SNAPSHOT GUILD ; , . " ., v - r - .- w x i- - H; V ; - - . . IT L-'" Use your equipment and supplies as they should be 'o make snapshots as good as this one. "I Thought I'd Try It Anyway" THE statement which serves as a title for today's column is one that is heard altogether too often from the lips of amateur photographers. photog-raphers. And it accounts for a large number of the poor snapshots snap-shots which are made. It is usually heard as the concluding con-cluding line of a story about purposely pur-posely taking a picture under unfavorable conditions. Perhaps it ivas too late or too early in the day; perhaps it was a shot which required a camera with a faster lens than that of ihe camera used; perhaps it was an attempt at using ordinary film for a special purpose. pur-pose. Whatever the actual case may have been, it was one in which the picture taker knew all the time that only a miracle would make his shot a good one. Maybe amateur snapshooters are incurable optimists, because we do seem to expect our equipment equip-ment and supplies to perform feats which they just weren't made to dfx It all adds up to useless waste of film and a strong feeling of disappointment. dis-appointment. Recently I heard a man say that he'd made 20 indoor color exposures expo-sures at his son's sixth birthday party. He knew that the film in the camera was for outdoor use and that his flashbulbs were not of the right type to make the film usable indoors. "I think Fll try it, anyway," he said at the time. Yet he was very disappointed when the postman brought him a box of transparencies all very bad because be-cause the color balance was completely com-pletely off. As is clear by now, the moral of this story is if conditions arent right, don't "try It anyway." Us your film and camera for the typ of pictures they are designed to make and thus avoid disappointment disappoint-ment .John van Guilder |