I have this moment returned from Wendling's, and as soon as I have posted this letter I am going back there, for the opera is to be rehearsed incamera caritatis, as it were.
But I subsequently avoided paper, and used under the cameramost carefully prepared surface of ground glass.
The construction of the camera for observing the surrounding country is very simple, and merely consists of a flat mirror placed at an angle, by which the picture is reflected through a double-convex lens on to a white table beneath.
Stereoscopic pictures are obtained by exposing sensitized paper in the camera to the picture of an object taken in two positions, or two cameras are employed to obtain the same result.
The pictures produced by this process are exquisitely defined, provided always the camera is well focussed, and to assist this operation a magnifying glass may be employed.
Thus with a single camera provided with semi-lenses, or two lenses of the same focal length, stereoscopic pictures can be obtained.
One of them, very prettily dressed in bright blue, was adjusting a hand camera with the intention of photographing the tourists and attendant watchdog guides.
The girl in blue handed the camera to her companion, took the cosmopolitan guide by the shoulders, pushed him across the road and posed him in a picturesque attitude on the outskirts of the crowd.
If she had been armed with phonograph as well as a camera she might have secured a really valuable record.
In order to get him into focus the girl in the blue dress kept backing away from him, holding the camera level and gazing into the view finder.
I've got five shots left in the camera and don't want to waste them.
Of course, he didn't make the camera, but he had a place down cellar where he developed and printed his pictures after the camera had taken them.
The enlargement is now carried out by a copying camera of the form of the well-known magic lantern, and lighted by an oxy-hydrogen or magnesium burner.
It is by no means an easy matter to transport a dark tent containing a chemical laboratory, together with a camera and the necessary supply of water, from one place to another.
Many ingenious contrivances are now used in the form of changing boxes--as they are called--by which plates may easily be transferred to the camera without danger of exposing them to any accidental gleam of light.
It is needless to point out that this method of photography dispenses at once with any travelling gear except the camera and lens, and a convenient light-tight receptacle for the sensitive plates.
But we do want the camera most frightfully badly, and if you would like to contribute to the fund again it would save us many weary months of waiting.
And I didn't tell you--he asked after the camera fund.
But isn't anybody ever going to be allowed to contribute to the camera fund?
The soldier had been following the Kaiser several days so His Majesty recognised him, ordered him to put up his camera and prepare to make a special film.
When the camera was ready His Majesty danced a jig, waved his sceptre and then his helmet, smiled and shouted greetings to the camera man--then went on along the beach.
As the camerabegan to grind, Brad, from the nearby thicket, shot an arrow.
While some of the Cubs remained to practice archery and pose for camera shots, Dan, Brad, Midge and Ross set off to explore the castle.
Mr. Holloway had brought along his movie camera and planned to record the match.
He brought his moving picture camera equipment from the car and joined the boys at the bridge.
As the camera began to grind, Brad as Little John opened wide the windows.
A passenger with a camera and an alert, inquiring face had come down from the day coach.
He was standing on a low bluff, with his head up, looking off like a young elk, when the boat pulled out, and the camera man snapped him.
There were few travelers in the observation car, and for a while nothing broke the silence but the clamp and rush of the wheels on the down-grade, then the man with a cameraentered and came down the aisle as far as the new passenger's chair.
The camera swung by a carrying strap from his shoulder, and he opened a notebook, which he supported on his knee while he felt in his pocket for a pencil.
Now I wish I could put before you a coloured, living, moving picture, like that of the camera obscura, of some other wheat-fields at a sunnier time.
Twenty-five years ago I went into a camera obscura, where you see miniature men and women, coloured photographs alive and moving, trees waving, now and then dogs crossing the bright sun picture.
To draw, easily and correctly, a Landscape, or any other Object, without being obliged to observe the Rules of Perspective, and without the Aid of the Camera Obscura.
To show the Spots in the Sun's Disk by its Image in the Camera Obscura.
He invented the first practical "taking" camera and evoked the enthusiastic cooperation of George Eastman in the production of this tape-like film, and the modern motion picture was born.
The camera bears a large part in the diffusion of intelligence, and the last half century in the United States has seen a great development in photography and photoengraving.
The projecting machine was substantially like the "taking" camera and was so used.
A television camera had been set up, focused on the two and nearly a dozen newsmen lounged around, notebooks in hand.
Of course," George said, making certain the TV camera was trained on him before continuing.
As soon as I fairly began to comply with the suggestion his young lady secretary, the daughter of a deceased and much esteemed congressman, trained a camera on me and the axe and secured a picture.
I want a microscopic lens used in the camera in such a way that we take a motion picture of the twinings and twistings of one little thread on the wax cylinder, as it records the sound waves around the cylinder.
A camera man was summoned, and the apparatus prepared for some "close-up" motion pictures.
Shirley greased the skill of the cameraman with a well-directed gratuity, and ordered speedy development of the film.
The camera man began to show interest: he was a skilled mechanician and he caught the drift of a sensible purpose, at last.
The manager and the camera man observed this with blank amazement, as he locked it and put the key into his pocket.
To the cynical camera man its general nature was expressed in his whispered phrase to the manager: "You better not leave them property butcher knives on that there table, Mr. Harrison.
The three strips of triple exposures were taken to the dark room and developed by the camera man.
The camera man went into the little fire-proof booth, to operate the machine.
The photographer sniffed with scorn, being familiar with eccentric uplifters of the "movies," but responded to the command of the manager to adjust his delicate camera mechanism for the task.
While there still remained a breach in the wall, Hurley repaired there with his cinematograph camera and took a film showing the clouds of drift-snow whirling past.
It was later in the year when Hurley with his whole-plate camera broke through the sea-ice--a sad affair for the camera.
He had broken through the lid of a crevasse fifteen feet wide and was hanging on to its edge close to where the camera lay damaged on the ice.
He placed his hand upon the thing like a camerawhich rose from the lid of the larger structure below it.
The tube, in which the lens of an ordinary camera is set, was in this case prolonged for six or seven feet, and was lost in the interior of the next machine.
For it was not that definite and coloured presentment of a scene caught by the camera and reproduced through the mechanical means of a lens, which is a thing which has no soul.
Only the camera could ever induce Mr. Britling to brush his hair, and for the camera alone did he reserve that expression of submissive martyrdom Mr. Direck knew.
He liked to be with the boys he had hired and one of them had a camera that he could take "great" pictures with.
Sometimes the claim-agents, working in conjunction with the railroad's secret service, have used the camera to great advantage.
The lone witness was said to have rushed over to his car to get his camera as the disk approached.
Saeki believes the blast might have destroyed any form of life existing on the planet, but even though the telescopic camera recorded a violent explosion, other authorities do not believe the planet was wrecked.
Then she saw a red flag waving from the camera plane.
Jane was glad that it was almost time for the plane to depart, for facing a movie camera was a real ordeal.
Chapter Twenty Down in Flames Director James was giving orders to the cameracrew which was to go aloft in one of the tri-motors.
Above Jane the first tri-motor, the plane she was to attack, was climbing steadily while the second of the big ships, with the director and main camera crew, was wheeling off the field.
On signal from the camera plane, Charlie will drop down on you.
Behind him boomed the camera ship, recording every movement of the planes.
When you see a red flag waved from the camera plane, go into a dive and jerk the smoke pot lever that's been rigged into your plane.
The camera range had been too long to get a glimpse of Jane's face and reveal that a girl was flying the plane, but her scarf, which had been wound around her head, trailed over the edge of the cockpit, whipping in the wind.
Two of the big tri-motored transports had been chartered for use and were landing and taking off for special shots of the field while camera crews on the ground photographed them.
While on their way back to the administration building, the camera plane landed.
A camera crew had its equipment ready and when the Coast to Coast came into view, started grinding away.
Close behind it followed Charlie, riding it to the ground, while above hovered the camera ship.
They've probably got a rendezvous all ready, with another camera in place.
I dare say if we tied her in a well some fool would lower a cameraon a rope.
He happens to have the camera trained on the party, and gets it all.
If I know anything of that red-headed Oliver man," she said, "he hates to let a camera rest.
Marriage is a serious business, and I don't know that I'd care to have a wife that followed a camera like a street kid follows a brass band.
At this time of year, an exposure in the camera of from ten to twenty minutes is requisite.
Mr. Ross has exhibited the best Camera in the Exhibition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "camera" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: camera; eyeglass; glass; magnifier; meniscus; objective; ocular; prism; reader
