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They are supplied by the makers in packs of 12 for daylight loading into a film-pack adapter, which must be provided to take the place of the ordinary dark slides for glass plates. The lens should be a modern anastigmatic by a good maker. A focal length of about six inches will be best for a quarter-plate camera. A bad lens makes success impossible even by accident.
Synge asked me to wait for a few minutes while he finished the draft at which he was working. He handed me a black tobacco-pouch and a packet of cigarette-papers. While I rolled a cigarette he searched for his photographs and at last handed them to me. They were quarter-plate prints in a thick bundle. There must have been fifty of them.
The camera a compact quarter-plate instrument, adapted for use either in the hand or mounted upon a tripod was routed out, the fact that there were four unexposed films still in it ascertained, and the pair went off together, intent upon taking the proposed photographs.
After a considerable amount of adjustment and readjustment, he appeared to be satisfied, for he remarked to me "I think I have got the lines in the same position as they are on our print, so, with Inspector Johnson's assistance, we will take a photograph which we can examine at our leisure." He extracted the camera a quarter-plate instrument from its case and opened it.
It was a cheap quarter-plate, and the jar had started up two of the angles. "The rest of the illustrations for that book will have to wait till this is coopered up," said I. "Are the plate-things inside spoiled?" Haigh asked. "No, they're all right so far as exposure to light goes. However, I'll look. Phew! what a mess! Every blessed one smashed except the last couple.
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