1. Regular Cameras
    special housing necessary

2. Amphibious
    a) snapshot models
    b) Nikonos (35 mm)

    Lenses
     i) air & water     35 mm
                               90 mm
     ii) only under water   28 mm
                                       15 mm

In this machine age, most business correspondence and school written work is legible because it is typed; but a great deal of private correspondence, classroom testing and exams is still handwritten, and it should be written legibly, purely and simply out of courtesy to the reader.

School children, more especially boys, tend to forget this basic reason why their writing should be reasonably neat. It is not a matter of producing something beautiful for beauty's sake, a practice which some boys are likely to regard - quite wrongly - as effeminate or 'cissy.' It is not a question of obliging Mr. Smith, who happens to be a fussy type of teacher, although Mr. Smith, who has to spend forty or fifty years in reading by artificial light scores of thousands of essays and other written exercises, may reasonably claim to have some rights in the matter. The situation is much more important than many people realize: if you write, you write for someone to read; and you owe your reader the courtesy of offering him something that he can read rapidly, unhesitatingly, and without mistaking what you wanted to say.

Nor is it any excuse for handwritten rudeness for you to state plaintively, as so many people do, that you have always been a bad writer and that there's nothing you can do about it. There is something you can do about it: you can agree that bad, untidy, illegible writing is a form of rudeness to your reader, and you can begin now to eliminate it. You can practise for five or ten minutes a day - perhaps when you are writing up an experiment or summary - making one piece of work as neat as possible. You can, if necessary, begin to change your handwriting to a simpler style, adopting plainer l's and b's and g's and y's if you make poor loop letters, and moving on to add more legible capitals and o's and r's and s's later. You may even decide to change to printing or near-printing (keeping letters close together and words well spaced) if you find that no other device will serve. All this you will do, not because good writing is artistic (though that itself is a sufficient and praiseworthy motive), and not because your teacher demands it (though he has every right to do so, for your sake and his own); but you will do it, if for no other reason than that a poorly scribbled letter is an impolite letter, that says plainly to client, employer, friend or relation, 'I don't care whether you find this difficult to read or. not; I am too lazy to bother writing well enough to make myself readily understood.'

Some people claim to be able to tell character from handwriting; certainly, from poor handwriting we can tell a good deal.

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