CHAPTER V 



PHOTOGRAPHING INSECTS 



Outfit required, — Long-focus camera (focussing hand-camera by preference). 

 Rapid long-focus lens with telephoto attachment. Rapid ordinary plates 

 (occasionally isochromatic plates are necessary). Tripod and other ordinary 

 appliances. Microscope with photo-plate attachment. 



This is a most fascinating field for camera work, and 

 a field that is not very often entered. The many 

 and various difficulties to be overcome, the enormous 

 range and diversity of subject, the intensely interest- 

 ing material which may be procured with so little 

 difficulty, all help to make this branch of photography 

 of the greatest possible interest. Not only are there 

 the insects visible to the naked eye, but also the vast 

 throng of microscopic life, so remarkable in its in- 

 finite variety of form. 



Beyond the few pictures of butterflies and moths 

 and dragon-flies, we do not see many insect pictures. 

 Occasionally a spider is photographed. But yet we 

 may say that insect photography is in its infancy. 

 The camera of the graflex type is undoubtedly the 

 one best suited to this kind of work, even though 



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