HUNTING WITH A CAMERA 
A Series of Practical Articles of Wild Life 
Photography—The Most Exciting of Outdoor Sports 
T HERE is no more intensely ex¬ 
citing sport than wild life pho¬ 
tography. It calls for a knowl¬ 
edge of the haunts and habits of 
animals, unusual skill in stalking, a 
complete mastery of the camera and 
a technical understanding of the vari¬ 
ous processes of developing, printing, 
enlarging, etc. 
The wild-life photographer must be 
able to keep perfectly cool under the 
most exciting conditions. He must 
have the patience and judgment to 
wait for the animal he is pursuing to 
assume the exact poise which he de¬ 
sires to portray, and he must have the 
strength and nervous energy to meet 
all of the exigencies of out- 
of-doors life in wild places. 
In addition to being unex¬ 
celled as a sport wild-life 
photography is a long step 
toward the conservation of 
our wild life. There is more 
of a thrill to covering a deer 
through the view-finder of a 
camera than there is through 
the sights of a rifle and there 
is more satisfaction in stop¬ 
ping a fast-moving bird with 
a shutter exposure of 1 1/1000 of a 
second than with a charge of No. 6 
shot. The victim of the wild-life pho¬ 
tographer—be it of the earth or of the 
air may be shot again and again. 
There is no close season for the man 
who hunts with a camera. 
The result of a successful season’s 
hunting with the camera is a batch of 
By A. BROOKER KLUGH 
negatives. Trophies which can be mul¬ 
tiplied indefinitely, and give pleasure to 
hosts of people. 
The wild-life photographer who re¬ 
cords the activities of animals, is able 
to convey more information in a single 
picture than would pages of descriptive 
writing. In photographing an animal 
if is often necessary to watch it for a 
long time before it assumes the desired 
attitude, during this time the photog¬ 
rapher is observing every movement, 
and naturally acquires an intimate 
knowledge of its life and habits. 
Equipment for the Field 
To be equipped for all kinds of work, 
the wild-life photographer requires two 
cameras—a reflex and a stand camera. 
The reflex is the only camera with 
which stalking can be successfully done, 
because in this camera the image is 
seen right side up and the same size it 
will appear on the plate, and focussing 
can be carried on up to the very in¬ 
stant of exposure. 
The reflex should have a long bellows 
extension, and should be fitted with a 
long-focus semi-telephoto lens, such as 
the Ross “Telecentric” or “Teleross” or 
the Dallmeyer “Dallon,” which give an 
image twice as large as that of the 
ordinary type of lens used, at the same 
bellows extension. The shutter should 
have a range of speeds from 1/10 sec¬ 
ond to 1/1000 second. It is a great 
advantage for the reflex to have a 
quick-setting shutter of the self-cap¬ 
ping type (i. e. one that requires but 
one movement to set to any speed); 
for in wild-life photography the fewer 
adjustments one has to make the bet¬ 
ter. It should be either 2Vz x 3% or 
3% x 4%, as reflecting cam¬ 
eras for plates of any larger 
size are so heavy and bulky 
as to be a decided burden. 
Personally I prefer the small¬ 
er size, as it means not only 
a lighter and smaller camera, 
but the plate-holders, plates 
and films are correspondingly 
smaller, and from small but 
critically sharp negatives en¬ 
largements may be made up 
to any desired size. 
The stand camera will be needed for 
taking pictures of animals which can 
be relied upon to visit and re-visit a 
certain spot—such as birds at their 
nest, or an animal at the mouth of its 
den—as it can be set up, focussed ac¬ 
curately, and the shutter operated from 
a distance by means of a thread. The 
most suitable type is what is known as 
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