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<\/a>Baby Brownie in NYC
LIFE Sep 17, 1951<\/p><\/div>\n
Toronto<\/strong>. In the days of film, photographers used a trick to freeze a subject into sharp focus – scanning. \u00a0An article in a very old issue of LIFE magazine (Sept 17, 1951, p 121)<\/a> shows the effect at a ball game using the primitive shutter in a box camera (about 1\/30th second top speed).<\/p>\n The article shows how a NYC photographer, Hy Peskin<\/a>, ditches his professional gear for a cheap $3 Baby Brownie<\/a> (This is an older model, Hy used one like I had as a kid). Hy took two shots, first panning the runner as he hit first base – runner sharp everything else blurry. Then second, holding the tiny camera still – base runner blurry, all else more or less sharp.<\/p>\n Another trick, often used (by me and many others) is to snap the shot just as the subject reached peak motion – e.g. a child on a swing<\/a>. The subject slows, stops, then accelerates back. With a bit of skill, the photo is snapped just as the subject stops and reverses direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Toronto. In the days of film, photographers used a trick to freeze a subject into sharp focus – scanning. \u00a0An article in a very old issue of LIFE magazine (Sept 17, 1951, p 121) shows the effect at a … Continue reading
![a child on a swing<\/a>. The subject slows, stops, then accelerates back. With a bit of skill, the photo is snapped just as the subject stops and reverses direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Toronto. In the days of film, photographers used a trick to freeze a subject into sharp focus – scanning. \u00a0An article in a very old issue of LIFE magazine (Sept 17, 1951, p 121) shows the effect at a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1592,328,2047,2046,21,425],"class_list":["post-12030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-baseball","tag-brownie","tag-freeze-motion","tag-hy-peskin","tag-kodak","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12035,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions\/12035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20130309-220415-DSC03668.jpg\"){kind=link}