Whenever I post photography articles I’m always amazed at how much harder it was to accomplish even the simplest of tasks before Photoshop and digital photography.

Vignetter Blocks Out Irregular Background
Blocking out the background of photographs in any shape—oval, round, or irregular—is made simple with a vignetter now available. Made of black fiber, it has twenty-nine movable wings which can be manipulated into almost any position desired. In printing portraits as well as other photographs it is thus unnecessary to cut a special vignette to fit the shape of a particular picture. The movable wings are merely maneuvered to the proper outline and the vignette laid in position under the enlarger or printer.

It must have sucked to be a paparazzi in the days when a “candid” picture required a 14 second exposure. I love title “Wolf Pack” for that picture on page four.

These Are Photos I’ll Always Remember

By Joseph Costa, Chief Photographer, N.Y. Sunday Mirror Magazine, and Chairman of the Board National Press Photographers Association.

A veteran cameraman tells how he takes pictures that spice the headlines.

YOU may recall that sensational case in Ohio in the late ‘Twenties—the trial of Professor James Snook for the love-affair murder of Theora Hix, one of his students. I’ll never forget it, for I learned then that a photograph can sometimes perform a public service.

That’s actually very impressive. I wonder how well it worked.

TWO-OUNCE CAMERA TAKES EIGHT PHOTOS
A pygmy camera, hardly larger than a golf ball, has been put upon the market in New York City. It weighs less than two ounces, and carries sufficient sixteen-millimeter film, the size used in amateur moving picture cameras, to take eight exposures. The camera’s size can be noted in the picture above.

This is obviously where Google stole the idea for the cameras on their street view cars.

Cameras Spin on Bicycle Wheel to Film Lightning Streak
Eight box cameras on a bicycle wheel are the “lightning chasers” built by Prof. John G. Albright of the Case School of Applied Science to trap lightning on film. Fast enough to photograph the component strokes of a lightning flash, its wheel is revolved four times a second while pictures are taken. In addition to the eight rotating cameras on the wheel there are three stationary cameras.