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The practice of photography (1857)

Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887, author, Contained in (work): Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887. Manual of photography · London ; Glasgow : Richard Griffin and Company · leaf 134

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120 PRACTICE OP PHOTOGRAPHY. ing to the remarks made in the Chapter on Lenses, it will become intelligible why this lenticular arrangement is necessary, for near objects, to produce that minuteness of detail which is desirable for effective portraiture. … Fig. 58. Fig. 59. For the purposes of taking landscapes, the inner lens is taken out, and the front lens is placed so that the stop, which was in the first arrangement between the two achromatics, is in front of the lens (fig. 59). The convenience of this method of adjusting, so that the same…

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