Apparatus for a Field Worker 83 



ances which are a necessity to the nature photog- 

 rapher. 



To try to tell a man just what make of camera, 

 lens, and shutter he must use would, in my 

 opinion, be almost if not quite as absurd as to try 

 to influence him in his choice of a rifle or shot- 

 gun, especially when he already knows something 

 about them. With cameras, as with guns, there 

 are many makes upon the market, all equally 

 good ; but naturally each photographer has his 

 favorite make, as each sportsman has his favorite 

 gun, and each is apt to think that the particular 

 make which he uses is the best. 



So, to the experienced man, who already has 

 his ideas inviolately fixed and with whose ideas 

 some of mine may conflict, I make my apologies 

 and beg him to remember that, as I have already 

 stated, this volume is written as an aid to the 

 mere tyro, he who knows nothing of the work he 

 is about to attempt, and not to the man who is 

 already experienced in that work. 



It is almost always discouraging to the beginner 

 to look over the long list of photographic appara- 

 tus and to try to pick out the camera, lens, and 

 other appliances which he thinks he will need, 

 realizing, as he must inevitably do, that he really 

 knows nothing about it. I know this was the 

 case with me, even a number of years ago, when 

 the name of the different makes was not so nearly 



