CHAPTER XV 



SHOOTING WITH THE REFLECTING 

 CAMERA 



THE reflecting camera is a crowning triumph 

 of inventive skill which greatly enlarges 

 the possibilities of hunting with the camera. 

 The great need is to be able to focus with speed and 

 certainty on live game with the camera in hand, and 

 to be able to make a sufficiently rapid exposure to 

 catch it sharply, despite any sort of movement. All 

 this is realized in the modern reflecting camera, whose 

 predecessor was a twin-lens or double camera, cum- 

 bersome and disappointing. In this new device there 

 is a mirror arrangement by which one can see the im- 

 age of the game, full size and right side up, until 

 the instant of exposure. By means of a curtain or 

 " focal-plane " shutter at the back of the camera, just 

 in front of the plate, one can secure a fully timed ex- 

 posure, in bright light, in an interval of one one-thou- 

 sandth of a second, or even less. With this a bird 

 can be photographed in the most rapid flight, flutter- 

 ing, running, or in any activity. 



The first camera of this sort to be made was the 

 " Reflex " camera. The Graflex followed with im- 

 provements, notably in being able to arrange the cur- 

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