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to remove the cap, where I had made more or less of a guess at the focal distance, when the sitter (who was standing!) said "You have not lift the curtain" (meaning slide) 
We laughed, I pulled the slide, and it was over,
The next pose was with a different background, and I was again ready when he remarked that, the camera was not aimed directly at him, it was enough so, but I looked again and got him square in the center of the plate, before the fourth and
last snap, he thought I was going to forget the slide again and with a merry twinkle warned me - I replied that I was sure he knew more about cameras than I did, which he did not deny. While posing his highness, I asked