HUNTING WITH A CAMERA. 



W. E. CARLIN. 



Among real sportsmen this form of sport 

 is steadily growing in popularity. It re- 

 quires infinitely more skill and patience to 

 obtain a good picture of a wild bird or 

 animal than to hunt and kill it. 



TO JUMP OR NOT TO JUMP? 



Anyone starting out to photograph live 

 animals — especially the smaller birds and 

 mammals — will be disappointed in the re- 

 sults obtained with the usual hand camera 

 of short focus and wide angle short focus 

 lens. Mr. Wright and I have worked 

 steadily for 2 years, during which time we 

 have made some 400 good negatives, of 

 about 40 varieties of living birds and mam- 

 mals, and our experience leads us to be- 

 lieve it is a mistake to depend on a 

 small plate, in the hope of subsequent en- 

 largement to a size suitable for framing or 

 for the album. 



A small, compact camera is a convenient 

 and often useful instrument to have at 

 hand; but the picture you get with it is by 

 no means comparable to one giving a large 

 primary image, on a large plate. We should 

 never use a plate smaller than 5x7 and 

 prefer the 6y 2 x S l / 2 . This is decidedly the 

 best all around size. 



The camera should be arranged for both 

 hand and tripod use; and if taken on rough 

 trips, in the woods or mountains, should 

 be thoroughly bound with metal. The bel- 

 lows cannot be too long. 



Any good long focus lens, of ordinary 

 intensity, say 7x8, fitted with shutter and 

 long pneumatic tube, will answer. The less 

 noise the shutter makes the better. 



A good telephoto is a most useful ad- 

 junct to an outfit and you can get many 



pictures with it that it would be impossible 

 to get without it. 



Of those I have used, my favorite is Dall- 

 meyer's portrait combination. This is cap- 

 able of making slow instantaneous ex- 

 posures, in good light. For a shutter we 

 use the Thornton-Pickard. An accurate 

 focussing scale and a large, brilliant finder 

 will often be useful for snap shots, at large 

 game; but if used on nearby small animals 

 will result in many failures. 



The more carefully you study the habits 

 of animals the easier you will find it to pho- 

 tograph them; and subjects and attitudes 

 which at first seemed impossible are easy 

 to get when one goes at it in the right 

 way. 



The subject for illustration, this month, 

 is the highly colored little chipmunk, that 

 is found in the higher ranges of the Rocky 

 mountains, in Montana and Idaho. 



When Mr. Wright and I first undertook 

 to photograph this little fellow, we made 

 small pictures of him, with a telephoto 

 lens; but later got sufficiently near to get 

 good sized images, in several instances. 

 No. 1 was taken by focussing on one of his 

 favorite resting places. The shutter was 

 sprung with a 50 feet tube. The camera 

 used was a Long Focus Premo, fitted with 



COMING DOWN. 



Bausch and Lomb Zeiss lens series vii.. 

 working at F. 12.5. Exposure i second, 

 on a Carbutt No. 27 ortho plate. 



No. 2 was gotten one day when we found 

 the chipmunk up an old burnt stump. I 

 set the camera on one side, and Wright 

 rapped on the stump, with a stick, stand- 

 ing on the opposite side from the camera. 



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