Photographic Outfit 37 



The ciiineras consist of a wliole-plate Optinms camera, on 

 an Ashford stand tlie best, the liolitest, and tlie stronii'est 

 of all stands. (I have stood on mine before now.) 



I liave also a qnarter-plate reflecting camera, pr()^ ided 

 with a focnssing eye-piece and mirror, throngh which I can 

 look horizontally on to the f()cnssino--o-lass, which <»•i^'es the 

 exact image seen throngh the lens itself 4'his takes the 

 Tele-photo lens, and also the Knryscope and the Stigmatic. 

 Here, I may say, all my things are interchangeable — all the 

 cameras "o on the same stand, all the lenses oo in all the 

 cameras, etc., etc. Instead of slides or changing-boxes there 

 is a single slide, with a leather changing-sleeve attached 

 thereto, which holds a box of plates, and when they are 

 used any nnmber of fresh boxes can be used one by one. 

 This camera, besides fixing on to the ^Vshford stand, also 

 screws on to a gim-stock made of willow, so that I can 

 use it from the shoulder like a gun, or rest it on my knee 

 like a rifle, or with the Knryscope lens it can be used 

 as an ordinary reflecting hand camera. 



Then there is the electric camera described in Chapter II. 

 This is a half-plate, rather solidly made, which takes all 

 lenses, and is provided with metal dark - slides and the 

 electric shutter behind lens of my own design, made by 

 JMessrs. Dallmeyer. 



(This camera has since become unusable, having suffered 

 too nuicli from exposure to damp by being left in wet 

 ditches and similar places all night, so as to be ready for 

 the proverbial early bird in the morning. I now use a 



