Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 187
properly fixed, pull theslide of the plate-holder, light the punk, and payout string as rapidly as possible. We found thatthe best way to elevate the camera rapidly was tosend the kite up to a great height without thecamera, tie the string to a tree, and then rundown the kite, by walking toward it… … VIEW TAKEN FROM 500 FEET, DIRECTLY OVER THEAUTHORS SUMMER HOME. this point, light the slow-match, and run rap-idly back for a few hundred feet, letting the stringslip through your fingers, and then let go entirely.The camera will then rise rapidly to a point verynearly over the point at which it…
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