Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1904 (Heft 5))

right, to such an extent even that it might almost be said that Nature is
usually wrong: that is to say, the condition of things that shall bring about
the perfection of harmony worthy a picture is rare, and not common at all .

THINGS WE HAVE LOOKED INTO.
¶ THE BAUSCH & LOMB Quarter-century Competition, out of which
our editor has drawn the Grand Prize of three hundred dollars. Many thanks
to the Judges—Abbott, Eickemeyer, and James—whose task must have
indeed been gigantic. That they judged most fairly, we verily believe.
Why shouldn't we? But, seriously speaking, the whole competition was a
grand success. Those winning first prizes in each class were: Eduard
J. Steichen, Mrs. W. W. Pearce, Mrs. Myra A. Wiggins, H. C. Myers,
Joseph N. Pearce, Curtis Bell, H. G. Ponting, Joseph R. Iglick, Miss
Nellie Coutant, Louis Fleckenstein, and Wm. E. Blossfeld. In all there
were eleven classes and sixty-one prizes. The Bausch & Lomb Optical
Company have prepared an elaborate souvenir of the occasion, in which are
reproduced the winning pictures. This can be had by mailing twenty-five
cents to them.
¶ The Eastman people, with their accustomed liberality, have opened a
competition with five thousand dollars in prizes for pictures made with their
new Kodoid Plates and Non-curling Films. Full particulars may be had
from all dealers and directly from Rochester.
¶ A crying need of the pictorialist is a lens which will give an equal and
proper diffusion without loss of texture and too great a sacrifice of speed.
The lenses made to meet this need by Pinkham & Smith, of Boston, have
our highest recommendation. Many Photo-Secessionists consider them
as indispensable to their outfits as the best of anastigmats. The firm will also
make any special lens to order and, as we know, at a very reasonable rate.
¶ Photographic chemists have vied with each other to simplify and make
more convenient the chemical operations of photography, and offer to
the amateur their developers in tablet form in lieu of solutions. The
Farbenfabriken of Elberfeld Company now puts up in this convenient way
its already very popular Edinol Developer.
¶ In offering to the public The Tourist, a light-weight Graflex, the Folmer
& Schwing people have again proven that they are thoroughly alive to the
needs of the heavily burdened photographer. This camera is built upon
the same first-class lines as its older brother. It also relieves you of less
cash, which is of no disadvantage in these times.
¶ Although nothing new, the Dallmeyer-Bergheim lens seems never to have
had a fair trial in this country. This is the more surprising as more and
more photographers are striving for just such results as can be so readily
achieved with this special lens.

Duty well performed

Another competition

Special lenses for
Pictorialists

Some more comforts

Loss of weight

An excellent, though
little-known instrument

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