"Shooting'' Birds with a Camera 



Making intimate pictures of bird-life 



At right: A flock of 

 wild ducks photo- 

 graphed by the gun- 

 camera without dis- 

 turbing the birds 



Below: A great blue 

 heron unconsciously 

 posing before the dis- 

 tant gun-camera 



'I'he difficulty of 

 getting close 

 enough to the 

 birds to secure 

 such size or detail 

 has been oxercome 

 b\- Stanley Clisby 

 Arthur, state or- 

 nithologist of 

 Louisiana, through 



T( ) secure photographs of bird life r-o 

 that the plumage detail, identifica- 

 tion marks and such matters dear to 

 the heart of the trained bird student or 

 to those who merel\- delight in \ie\ving 

 pictures of nature, a large image of the 

 object photographed must be secured. 



Above: Birds in flight are 

 as easily caught by the 

 camera as those at rest. 

 At left: The great focal 

 length used increases the 

 size of the image secured 



the use of a '"gun- 

 camera." which con- 

 sists of an ordinary 

 reflecting camera with 

 the usual bellows ex- 

 tension, mounted on a 

 carriage with wheels. 

 The bellows is supple- 

 mented with a tube to 

 ailmii the use of long- 

 focus lenses. 



In the camera illus- 

 trated the lens is re- 

 cessed in the far end of 

 the tube so as to ha\e the benefit of a 

 lens-hofKl when working against the sun 

 or light, and fneusing is accomplished in 

 the ordinary wa\ b\ the milled heail. 



The de\ice when set u(i i.-. (K-rlectK 

 rigid and enables Mr. Arthur to "[)ick 

 off" birds at ;>nv height or \n tliglu. 



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