“‘Do I look right side up now?’”
“Suppose you turned the camera upside down,” suggested McConnell, coming back.
Allan laughed again. “I’m afraid that wouldn’t do any good,” and he turned the camera to show McConnell that the picture was still hopelessly inverted.
McConnell thought that he liked the “finder” picture better. “It’s too bad,” he said, “that it isn’t bigger.”
Allan had been reading about cameras. “There are special cameras,” he said, “that have finders on top as large as the focussing glasses at the back.”
McConnell thought that he would like one of that sort.
“What’s the use?” asked Allan. “The little finder tells you just what you are going to get. It’s the picture boiled down—well!” Allan shook the box. “I hope something hasn’t broken already.” A rattling sound came from the inside of the box.
“Maybe it was broken in the express,” ventured McConnell. But investigation proved that the rattling sound was produced by a loose screw under the front cover of the box, which the directions showed was to be used when the camera was placed on legs. Having opened the front of the box to make this investigation, Allan was now able to closely examine the lens.
“That’s the diaphragm,” said Allan, pointing to the disk of metal protruding from the barrel of the lens.