CHAPTER XIII 

 CAMERA HUNTING AND EQUIPMENT 



HUNTING with the camera has in recent 

 years come into great vogue as a sport and 

 an adjunct to outdoor studies of nature. 

 From the sportsman's standpoint, it provides a real 

 hunting, in which there are no closed seasons, mak- 

 ing all wild creatures legitimate game, instead of a 

 limited few. Viewed from the province of the col- 

 lector, the acquiring of interesting and valuable pic- 

 torial trophies satisfies the almost universal passion 

 for " making a collection " of some sort. As a 

 method of scientific research, it is valuable in many 

 different ways. All in all it is a most fascinating em- 

 ployment, with all the freshness of -the open, from 

 which no age or sex is debarred. Some aspects of it 

 are difficult, yet not so much so as to be beyond the 

 reach of any who are in earnest. My purpose is to 

 give such directions and suggestions, simply and yet 

 in sufficient detail, that anyone who wishes may be 

 able successfully to take up this " new hunting." 



At the outset, it is important to secure the right 



type of camera, one which is adapted to the work in 



hand. It cannot be too strongly impressed upon the 



mind that the ordinary snap-shot camera, with single 



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