1 8 CAMERA SHOTS AT BIG GAME 



Very little of the work has been done by hand-camera, this 

 being used only where the tripod was impossible. At the 

 commencement no hand-camera at all was available, and since 

 then none has been used. Consequently, the work has been 

 more laborious as well as less speedy, and occasional chances 

 have been lost through the time taken to set up the camera. 

 Up to 1894 Carbutt's cut films were principally used, but find- 

 ing greater speed in Cramer's Crown plates, these have been 

 employed since that time. The short-focussed and convenient 

 hand-camera would have been worthless for most of the work, as 

 the size of the resultant image would have been too small for 

 value. A Gundlach Rectigraphic lens was used for several years. 

 This gave a focus of S}4 inches, while the back lens, used alone, 

 gave a focus of 13^ inches, and the front lens 18 inches. 

 In 1894 a Zeiss series II lens was added for greater speed and 

 found to be very satisfactory, and while a telephoto lens was 

 attached to the Zeiss in 1895, it has proved to be too slow for 

 very effective work. Of all the shutters, the Bausch & Lomb 

 Optical Co.'s diaphragm shutter has turned out to be the best. 

 So much for mechanical outfit. 



For me, at least, there is a charm about the blacktail, or 

 mule-deer, that no other game possesses. Barring the bighorn, 

 their meat is the best, their hide tans into the best buckskin, 

 and you turn from the larger elk or the agile antelope to the 

 graceful beauty of a blacktail buck, and find there the greater 

 satisfaction. The head of the bighorn is a finer trophy, no 

 doubt, and you are led to grand scenery in pursuit of him, but 



