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tographers. It was placed on the market a 
year ago, and while thousands of amateurs 
are now enthusiastic in its praise, there are 
still some experts who claim that no one 
can do good work with it under all condi- 
tions; but this latest device of the East- 
man factory has knocked many of the old 
photographic theories sky high. For in- 
stance, it has always been supposed that 
snap shots should be given more time in 
development than time exposures ; that nega- 
tives made under certain conditions require 
entirely different treatment from those made 

STRANGE MOUNDS ON THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, 
hints as to what they may find if they go 
into the woods or the mountains or even on 
the prairies, carry their cameras with them 
and if they travel with their eyes open. You 
may not find exactly the same kind of 
things, but you may find a lot better things 
for pictures. You need not go to wild, in- 
accessible places to find novelties or ob- 
jects of artistic or scientific interest. I 
never walk a mile in Jersey or in New 
York or in Pennsylvania, or in any other 
State, without wishing I had my camera 
along, or without using it, if I have it. 
Many of you have no doubt been won- 
dering what camera and what lens I use. 
It is only fair to the makers of these instru- 
ments which did me such good service that 
their names should be made known to you. 
These names are household words through- 
out the civilized world. I use a 5x7 East- 
man Cartridge Kodak and Eastman films. 
This box is fitted with a Goerz double 
anastigmat lens and a Goerz shutter. The 
machine was mounted on a Goerz aluminum 
tripod, which weighs only 2 pounds. 
I also carried with me an Eastman de- 
veloping machine, and this proved one of 
the greatest luxuries that modern ingenuity 
has provided for the use of amateur pho- 
He: 
under other conditions. Theoretically, this 
may be true enough, but I developed sev- 
eral rolls of films that had on them some 
exposures made with the lens wide open 
and the shutter working at 1-100th of a 
second; others with the lens stopped down 
to 128 and in exposures timed at 10 to 20 
seconds each. Such rolls, placed in the 
developing machine and ground out with 
careful attention to printed instructions, 
brought out all the negatives with equal 
fidelity to nature. Most of the pictures re- 
produced in this article are the result of 
time exposures, with the smallest stop; yet 
some of the others are from snap shots. 
The proof of the pudding is in eating it, 
and I frankly admit I could not have 
got better results on any of my plates if 
I had cut the films and developed each one 
separately and in accordance with old time 
methods. 
I have been making pictures more or 
less. for 26 years, and have used a num- 
ber of different cameras and lenses; and 
while I ami aware that many of my readers 
will disagree with me, I regard this as 
about the best outfit, all things considered, 
that can be made up for a photographic trip 
in a wild country. 
I believe you think more of that 
dog than you do of me. 
She: 
Exchange. 
But he’s worth so much more.— 

