{"id":17949,"date":"2020-07-27T04:42:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T08:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=17949"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:11:10","slug":"why-the-tripod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/why-the-tripod\/","title":{"rendered":"why the tripod?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Toronto<\/strong>. Did you ever wonder why so many old photos and drawings of cameras in use showed a tripod? Until the dry-plate era, the media were so insensitive that it took \u00a0seconds or minutes in bright light to record the latent image.<\/p>\n

When dry-plates began to be popular (1870s and later), cameras needed a shutter, not just a hat or a lens cap and counting the time exposed. Rudimentary shutters showed I<\/strong> for instantaneous photographs and B<\/strong> for bulb or timed photographs. I<\/strong> was actually very slow by modern standards at somewhere between 1\/5th and 1\/15th second, fast enough to hand hold the camera in bright sunlight but too slow for the camera to capture motion (moving, walking, running, etc.).<\/p>\n

The above photograph c1875 shows a typical camera and tripod of the time. My thanks to friend and PHSC member George Dunbar for sharing his find with me. The site “Fans in a Flashbulb<\/a>” offers colouring book versions of this and other tintypes<\/a> showing the tools of the trade in the late 1800s. The photos can be downloaded as a pdf and coloured at home in this COVID-19 era as “Fans” suggests.<\/p>\n

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