PHOTOGRAPHY AND PRESERVING 



tance or time of exposure, but is sure of getting the object 

 sharp at least nine times out of ten. 



It is also advisable to take a smaller camera, with pos- 

 sibly a wide-angle lens, for photographing scenery, vil- 

 lages, and similar objects, for which purpose some people 

 like to take a panoramic camera. I should also think it 

 would be possible to fix a small and light camera with a 

 " universal lens " under the barrel of the gun, and at the 

 very end of the same, with some kind of an attachment 

 which would make it possible for the photographer to 

 " snap," for instance, a charging animal at a few yards 

 distance, and then, without changing the position of the 

 gun, kill the oncoming beast. If I go back to Africa again 

 I shall certainly try this method, as it would enable the 

 hunter to wait with comparative safety until the very last 

 moment to see whether the animal means mischief or not 

 before he would have to shoot to save his life. 



Another important question to decide is whether it is 

 advisable to take films or dry plates, or both. During one 

 of my expeditions, when I had both kinds almost equally 

 divided, it so happened that one of the porters, who car- 

 ried a box with some of our best, already developed nega- 

 tives, dropped the same in crossing a river, when he stum- 

 bled over some stones. The result was that the heavy box 

 hit one of these, and a great many of the negatives were 

 broken and ruined, which was a great loss to us, indeed. 

 On the other hand, dry plates will, as a rule, keep better 

 in the tropics, but if the films are carefully put up in sealed 

 tin boxes they will keep for fully five to six months in any 

 climate, particularly if one is careful to develop the rolls 

 as quickly as possible after the exposures. 



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