I o The Camera and its Accessories 



splitting; metal-tipped sockets' prevent loose joints; 

 and the expansion brackets -make it impossible' for 

 the legs to be detached from the head by any ordinary 

 accident. The crown tripod has a head of sufficient 

 sizp and strength to hold firmly a tilting tripod top. 

 I have made use of this attachment so often, and it 

 ha^ been so valuable to me, that I strongly recommend 

 it I'to all nature photographers. By aid of it ihe 

 camera may be tilted at any angle from the horizontal 

 to ininety degrees. It screws directly to the tripod 

 head, and the camera is fastened to it by means of 

 a thumb-screw. In fact, the tilting top is similar to 

 a double tripod head hinged at one side and capable 

 of being tilted and held in position by means of two 

 adjustable levers. The portability, compactness, and 

 solidity will at once suggest its usefulness to the 

 thoughtful field-worker. 



So much, then, for the tripod camera; it has solidity 

 and weight, but it will do the work. You will grow 

 weary in carrying it up hill and through tangled 

 thickets, but it is as true in photography as in all 

 else that whatever of value is accomphshed, in one 

 way or another an equivalent must be expended. 



In animal photography it is often necessary to use 

 a hand camera; and I have found none equal to 

 the Graflex. The Graflex is the outcome of the "double- 



