^ Photography by Day and by Night 



my mind no trouble and no exertion could be excessive 

 in the work of securing records of what is left us of 

 animal life, in the spirit in which Professor Fritsch 

 achieved his task in South Africa. 



The impossibility of securing sharp, clearly defined 

 impressions of the animals with the telephoto lens at a 

 hundred paces or more, and the few chances I had of 

 photographing them close at hand by daylight, were 

 responsible partly for my determination to go in for flash- 

 light pictures by night. At first my Idea was discouraged 

 and opposed by expert advisers, but the Goerz-Schllllngs 

 apparatus was evolved out of my experiments and makes 

 It possible now to secure excellent representations of wild 

 life. 



As I have said already, I did not succeed with my 

 flashlight photographs on my second expedition. And 

 my third expedition, on which I managed to take a few, 

 was brought to a sudden end by severe illness. At that 

 time I had not found a way to combine the working of 

 the flashlight with that of the shutter, essential to the 

 photographing of objects In rapid motion. My cameras 

 stood ready for use in the dark with the lens uncovered 

 and the plates exposed, the shutter being closed auto- 

 matically when the flashlight contrivance worked. To my 

 surprise and disappointment this arrangement proved too 

 slow ; the exposure was too long In the case of animals 

 moving quickly. Jackals emerged from my negatives with 

 six heads, hyenas with long snake-like bodies. Unfor- 

 tunately I destroyed all these monstrosities, and cannot 

 therefore reproduce any of them here. Now and again, 



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