p enough for bromoil or gum. And the
Graflex is not so very heavy when a film pack or cut films are used. The
image is always right side up and you see it in the full size. No one can
question the efficiency of the shutter, and with practice you can hold the
camera for a one-fifth second exposure. The only drawback to the outfit
is in seeing things from the waist level, which makes the foreground
difficult. Thinking of your picture as a pattern, however, it is better
to be looking down from an elevation and with a nine-inch lens on a 4x5
box the immediate foreground is negligible. Everything considered, I
believe there is no more satisfactory outfit than this combination.

"Still Life" was the result of a problem of construction in pastel with
three colors, the vase green, the small box red, with the white string.
It was later photographed as a study of colored objects, using a Standard
Orthonon plate with a Cramer Isos III filter and a Struss lens at F 8.
The lens was of fifteen-inch focal length on a 61/2x81/2 plate. The exposure
was made in an ordinarily lighted room, but not strong light, and I think
about four minutes was given. The print is on ivory black platinum. There
was no retouching of any kind, and I think the print shows the value of
using a color filter with an orthochromatic plate where colors are
contrasted in the subject.

B. S. HORNE.

MR. LATIMER EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS SOMEWHAT AT LENGTH

_See __In an Italian Village_

In the olden days I used to lug around big cameras. I even went so far as
to have 14x17 _hand camera_, made to take to sea with me to make large
direct marines. In the days of the old Boston Camera Club it was called
"the dog-house." But I soon found out that it was "too much pork for a
shilling." Now I use small cameras and enlarge. My small cameras are
mostly of the stereo-panoram variety, and a pocket Ansco, all fitted with
fast lenses and with direct vision finders, which I consider much more
practicable than the old style finders. For instance, I was on a steamer
a few months ago, waiting to leave the dock, and a lot of gulls were
flying around. I said to myself, "Here's a good opportunity to test my
shutter and finder, and see if I can stop them," so I used up one roll of
film on them. I made direct hits and stops on every one.

My picture "In an Italian Village" was made with my Voi