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presence and dead to all sense of fear. It is best, 

 however, never to risk a close approach until you 

 have secured at least one negative, no matter at 

 what distance, when the deer is first sighted ; 

 otherwise the opportunity of securing one of that 

 particular animal may escape you altogether, and 

 any picture of a deer or other wild animal, no 

 matter how small the image may be, is of value, 

 for it can always be enlarged. 



Ordinarily the reflex camera is the one to use 

 and the one which will give the most and the best 

 results. This should be fitted not only with an 

 ordinary fast, long-focus lens, but with a telephoto 

 lens as well. This latter should be one that is 

 made especially for hand camera work, for, while 

 it has a magnification of only three and a half 

 diameters, still it works fast enough to allow of an 

 exposure of at least -^-^ of a second in the strong 

 sunlight, and even on a cloudy day exposures of 

 from -^ to yV of a second can be made with it and 

 produce good results. 



Never use a short-focus lens in work upon 

 animals, for it not only renders your subjects too 

 small to be of much use, but, when close enough 

 to make a fair-sized image, it is very difficult to 

 prevent the distortion due to the exaggerated 

 foreshortening that is a characteristic of this style 

 of lens. Therefore, I should say, never use a lens 

 of a shorter focal length than nine inches, and, of 



