WILD LIFE AT HOME 



CHAPTER I. 



APPARATUS AND GENERAL ADVICE. 



THE importance of the points to be dealt with 

 in this chapter can hardly be over-estimated, for 

 upon their intelligent observance and carrying out 

 depends to a very considerable extent the success 

 likely to be ultimately achieved. 



I do not propose to go into the chemical or 

 optical side of photography, because it would 

 hardly come within the province of this work, 

 apart from the fact that there are plenty of 

 cheap and trustworthy guides upon the subject. 



The question of the price of a camera is one 

 which must be settled to a certain extent by 

 the means of the aspirant; however, let me hasten 

 to add, for the encouragement of all those who 

 are not blessed with an abundance of loose cash, 

 that nowadays an outfit can be bought very 

 cheaply, and that my brother started out upon his 

 photographic career with a guinea camera, with 

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