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Unobtrusive, remarkably observant, and blessed Cine-Kodak Magazine 8 (left, above) with the best of memories-that's Cine-Kodak The economy movie maker with 3- ... the ideal movie-making travel companion for second slip-in loading with full-color you and your still camera. or black-and-white Cine- Kodak Use your faithful "miniature" to capture the Films. Fast Lumenizedf/1.9 lens, in- high spots of your holiday ... use the Cine- terchangeable with any of six acces- Kodak for the mile-by-mile, day-by-day continu- sory lenses; four operating speeds, ity of the trip. Seeing the smooth-flowing story including slow motion. Pocket size they make together is just like taking a vacation and movie wise. $12 5, plus tax. over again! Cine-Kodaks are far from plentiful yet-but Cine-Kodak Magazine 16 (right, above) more of them are beginning to appear on dealers' Counterpart of the "Magazine 8"- shelves. "Eight" or "Sixteen," they're alike in and the way to the larger, more bril- their simplicity of use and certainty of fine re- liant m ovies that come from 16mm. sults. film. Most po pular of all "Sixteens"- Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester 4, N.Y. at any price. $150, plus tax. Kodak PHOTO Magazine is published by the Eastman kodak Company, Rochester 4 , N. Y., and is mailed only to users of Kodachrome Film whose film is sent under their own names to Kodak processing stations. Subscriptions are not accepted. THIS ISSUE IS NO. 1, VOLUME 2. EASONS used to have a very tight grip means: take along only what you know, on us. Time was, for example, when we from experience, you'll need. Take the "holed in" for i:he winter. Bearlike in camera that's most compact, most easy to Sour hibernation, we only dreamed of un- use-and for which you can get film most frozen freedom, or of traveling fancy-free, readily. Control the temptation to lug weather or no. along a lot of filters, especially if you've It's different now. Many of us travel had relatively little experience with them. more in winter than in summer. We head For black-and-white work, a yellow filter south to find an extra summer; or we of the K-2 type will be most useful, for it wander off to the National Parks in num- will work with both ortho and pan films. bers sufficient to upset the old notion of For Kodachrome filming, you may-if the touring "season"; or, having decided you're going in for mountain scenery or that offense is the best defense, we go aerials-need a Haze Filter; if you have where the snow and cold are deepest, and the compensating filters for Daylight and make sport of winter. Type A Kodachrome Film, you'll control the situation should you find yourself with- Naturally,,, out the appropriate film for a specific We take our cameras along, naturally. series of shots. It's unthinkable that we should leave The most important accessory you can them behind. For a good part of the fun take along is something no one can sell of going south-or in any other direction- you-a perceptive, appreciative eye. You lies in making pictures which record what have a way of looking at things that is we see on our travels, as we see it, for our distinctive, unique. Therefore your pic- re-enjoyment whenever we please and for tures should reflect, and very accurately, sharing with our friends. your point of view, your seeing style. There The modern idea in travel is to go are many places, of course, where a single light. Don't load yourself down with a lot certain vantage point is a natural for pic- of unnecessary stuff. Photographically this tures. At the Bok Tower in Lake Wales, 3 Florida, for example, the vista from the On entering either Canada or Mexico you end of the reflecting pool toward the may have to register your camera; it de- Tower is so obviously good that it is cele- pends on whether or not the authorities brated in picture post cards and in the feel you may be inclined to sell it during pictures made by practically every one of your visit. the camera users who visit the place, by In any foreign country, it's sound prac- the thousands, each season. You can't es- tice not to invite criticism by making pic- cape it; it's a good shot. But after you've tures of military insta1lations. Similarly, observed the convention of making a shot try to avoid making shots which the super- there, go on the prowl for other vistas that sensitive citizenry might construe as imply- are less obvious and possibly more appeal- ing criticism. In this category fall scenes ing to you. depicting extreme poverty or filth or. primi- If your travels take you across the bor- tive squalor. We Americans tend to be less der into M exico or Canada, you'll be glad sensitive to pictorial candor; our friends to know that the wartime censorship rules south of the border-and beyond-are have been withdrawn. Noncommercial working hard to improve conditions and, photography is entirely unrestricted. It is in the meantime, prefer us to accentuate not necessary to have your films processed the positive. and censored before their release to you. If you're in doubt as to the real, actinic So long as your film is of American manu- quality of light in, for example, M exico facture it can be brought home without City, drop in at the nearest Kodak dealer. any but routine customs formalities, whether You'll find folks there with the right an- it is unexposed or exposed and unprocessed. swers to your questions. s Look for unhackneyed vistas when you're picturing well-known scenic spots. The side-lighted waterfall, by Ansel Adams, San Francisco, required 1/50 second at f/8, on Kodachrome Professional Film. DAY on skis is a day for the camera. matter how high a reading your exposure From the time you shoulder your ruck- meter gets from the sunlit snow. Asack for a dawn-to-sunset tour, every When the camera is cold, leave it out- moment offers another picture. side the steamy hut; if you must take it Slogging upslope on moleskins, you'll inside, wipe off the lens before you go out find your scenic chances-brilliant skies, again. Beware, too, of extreme cold; few dizzying vistas, trees banked and molded cameras work well at below zero. into wedding cakes, drifts heaped and .tex- Perhaps your ski shots for this year are all tured by the wind. taken. Then now's the time to plan your book Downhill in a swirl of powder snow, of ski pictures. Make there's an action shot at every turn. Get them big. You can't com- ahead of the crowd, and catch them on press that wide winter the turns; action is best then, and move- world on postage stamps. ment least. At high altitudes, on black-and-white All shots taken in Wasatch film, the deep blue sky registers without National Forest, Alta, Utah, by filters; yellow filters give red-filter effects. G. L. Waters. Kodak Veri chrome With Kodachrome Film, don't cut the Film, no filter; developed in exposure below 1/50 second at j/8-no Microdol. Prints, Kodabromide. 7 SMALL FRY Youngsters are the most popular of all amateur photographic subjects but they're far from the easiest to picture successfully. OONER or later, everyone meets him . the proud parent who pulls a sheaf of his latest pictures of Junior from his Sbillfold and hands them to you for admir- ing scrutiny, to the accompaniment of something like this: "That's one I took when he was just eight months old. Darn kid tried to stand up. He's a speed demon, too. I simply couldn't m ake him hold still . The light sorta failed on this one ... rammed his fist into his eye just as I shot him. Never can tell what the little guy will do next ..." And so on. To you, the pictures don't look like much. But you admire them just the same, because you know that your friend sees in them so much more than a photographic image. To him they're complex symbols of his own affection and pride; they have sound effects that you cannot hear, with overtones of sentiment that no one outside his family can comprehend. But baby pictures do not have to have so limited a meaning. It is entirely possible Bubbles, a triumph of eareful preparation, nicely planned flash lighting, and a great deal of patience. By W. Wooden, Rochester, N. Y. to make a picture which will mean every- Outdoor lighting is sometimes tricky, thing to the child's family-and a great not only in its intensity but in its color deal to others, too. quality. For example, in making baby shots The first and most important factor in outdoors with black-and-white film, it is picturing children-whether they're babies hard to beat "open shade"--the sort of or eighth graders-is patience, a quality condition you find on the shaded side of that any parent needs for his own as well the house on a bright day, with brilliant, as his child's salvation. Because you can't unobstructed sky overhead. But in color make the average youngster pose, it shouldn't work, you may find that you pick up a lot even be attempted.

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