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The Tilting Tripod. camera appears to be as far below the 



As the tilting tripod is one of the reflecting surface as the distance from 



most convenient and valuable acces- the water to the top of the ground. In 



sories to a camera, I wonder why it is doing similar work, one must be care- 



so seldom used, especially since it is 



PHOTOGRAPHING DOWN A WELL. 



The camera, vertical by aid of the tilting top, is 

 reflected by the water. 



so inexpensive. There are various de- 

 vices of ball and socket for tilting the 

 camera in any direction, but I have not 

 found those nearly so convenient as the 

 tilting top, made of two hinged boards, 

 and supplied by the Folmer & Schwing 

 Company, of Rochester, New York. In 

 actual use their device is "worth its 

 weight in gold." By it many things, 

 otherwise totally inaccessible, may be 

 readily obtained. Take for example the 

 accompanying interesting study in the 

 perspective of an old well. The camera 

 and tripod, you will observe, are re- 

 flected in miniature at what appears to 

 be an excessively remote distance from 

 the surface, but is actually from the 

 water at the bottom of the well ; but 

 the optical effect is such that the 



ful not to drop things down the well, 

 and especially not to lose hold of the 

 camera, or one may be compelled to 

 make undesirable aquatic experiments. 

 Small ant-hills, spiders' webs on the 

 grass, beds of flowers and various other 

 interesting objects on the ground, are 

 readily photographed by the use of the 

 tilting tripod. Then, too, such a tripod 

 is as good for photographing upwards. 

 By reversing the camera on the top, 

 and putting on a telephoto or long 

 focus lens, one may take views of 

 birds' nests in the trees, of interesting 



A PHOTOGRAPH OF A SMALL ANT-HILL BY 

 VERTICAL CAMERA. 



