10. [he Camera and its Accessories 
splitting; metal-tipped sockets prevent loose joints; 
and the expansion brackets make it impossible for 
the legs to be detached from the head by any ordinary 
accident. The crown tripod has a head of sufficient 
size and strength to hold firmly a tilting tripod top. 
I have made use of this attachment so often, and it 
has been so valuable to me, that I strongly reeommend 
it to all nature photographers. By aid of it the 
camera may be tilted at any angle from the horizontal 
to ninety degrees. It screws directly to the tripod 
head, and the camera is fastened to it by means of 
a thumb-screw. In fact, the tilting top is similar to 
a double tripod head hinged at one side and capable 
of being tilted and held in position by means of two 
adjustable levers. The portability, compactness, and 
solidity will at once suggest its usefulness to the 
thoughtful field-worker. 
So much, then, for the tripod camera; it has solidity 
and weight, but it will do the work. You will grow 
weary in carrying it up hill and through tangled 
thickets, but it ‘is as true in photography as in all 
else that whatever of value is accomplished, in one 
way or another an equivalent must be expended. 
In animal photography it is often necessary to use 
a hand camera; and I have found none equal to 
the Graflex. The Graflex is the outcome of the “double- 
