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late trip into a remote wilderness country where 

 we had fine photographic equipment, it was a plain, 

 commercial, fool-proof camera which cost less than 

 twenty-five dollars, lens and all, that brought home 

 most of the bacon. Perhaps you may have had 

 something of the same experience in some of your 

 trips. A very portable camp style is of the long, 

 narrow, folding type. Any one of many folding 

 cameras will prove quite good enough to give you 

 a record of your vacation. Beautiful enlargements 

 are now made from small negatives and the use of 

 colored lantern slides made from one's negatives 

 has now become quite general among 1 sportsmen. 



Of late years the movies have gone into the wil- 

 derness for scenes and now you may see for five or 

 ten cents the secrets of the arctic or tropic wilder- 

 ness. Most of this is professional or semi-pro- 

 fessional work, but the time is not far distant when 

 amateur moving-picture outfits will be offered at rea- 

 sonable rates. I have never heard of such a thing, 

 but offer the idea to manufacturers free of charge. 

 There will be a market and think of the film such 

 outfits will use ! 



Suppose we depart from the side of anticipation 

 and look at the realization credits of the camping-, 

 out proposition. Why should you go camping out 

 at all except for pleasure? There are excellent addi- 



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