PHOTOGRAPHY 



the market there are none more suitable for work in 

 tropical countries than the N.S. Reflex with metal 

 shutter. No rubber blind shutter will resist the effects 

 of heat and damp for any length of time. But to 

 those travellers who dislike a bulky camera, or one 

 which involves changing the plates in the dark, the 

 Kodak, fitted with a high-class anastigmat, is eminently 

 suitable. These cameras are simple and convenient 

 and are capable of excellent results, but it would be 

 unreasonable to expect them to produce the same 

 class of work as a more perfect instrument would do. 

 The latter are fitted with a wide range of movements, 

 which have to be sacrificed in the Kodak to size and 

 weight, and they are therefore necessarily more 

 complex. 



But to the traveller who wishes to do more serious 

 work, I should recommend, in addition to a reflex, 

 either a universal hand or stand camera, such as 

 the Sanderson, or Sinclair " Una," or, even better, a 

 square bellows type of stand camera using whole or, 

 at any rate, half-plates. With such a combination 

 and a series of two or three lenses, practically any 

 photographic difficulty may be overcome. This out- 

 fit may sound complicated and troublesome, but it 

 must be remembered that there is no single camera 

 suitable for all types of subject, and that good results 

 are not obtained without the expenditure of much 

 time and labour. A point to be noticed in buying a 

 reflex camera is that it should have a reversing back, 

 and that the hood should be capable of being turned 

 round, in order that natives may be photographed at 

 right angles to the direction in which the camera is 

 pointing. In some cases this is most desirable, as 

 certain tribes have a strong superstitious fear of the 



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