two-hundred-and-fiftieth

Updated: May 23, 2025

Here is a picture of native football at the Allakaket, just north of the Arctic Circle, made late in April with a Graflex, fitted with a lens working at f. 4.5, at the full speed of its focal-plane shutter one one-thousandth of a second. In five years' use that was the only time when that speed was used, or any speed above one two-hundred-and-fiftieth.

Hudson Stuck - Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled: A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska