The Art of projection and complete magic lantern ... - Yesterday Image

93good support in one sense— but is anything but solid for a lantern to restupon. In this manner four times as much space is occupied as a properTripod would take up, and often adds much to the discomfort of theaudience who are behind the lantern endeavouring to obtain a sight ofthe screen from each side of the obstacle. At each movement of thelantern in changing the slides, the picture oscillates and becomes verytrying to the eyes. We advise all amateurs to invest in a tripod, it isworth the outlay.Tripod, as shown in the illustration, is most suitable for a biunial ortriple, the legs are made telescopic, thus raising the tripod to twice itsoriginal length, each leg being independent of the other, makes it very convenientwhen it is placed over two pews, where two legs only are requiredto be extended and the third retained in its normal position ; the top isalso capable of being tilted to an acute angle, a ledge running along theback keeps the lantern in position. The illustration shows the two side