. Review of reviews and world's work. ocus bythe distance scale, esti-mating the distancewith the eye, as onewould use a , of course, is some-what uncertain and un-satisfactory. T w i n -lens cameras are heavyand unwieldy, and fo-cusing-finders are unre-liable. The best devicefor this purpose is thereflecting, or re-flex, style of camera, with a mirror arrangementby which one can see the game in full-sized image,upon a ground glass on top. With the slide with-drawn from the plate one can see to focus, andthen can snap the instant everything is , there is but one su
. Review of reviews and world's work. ocus bythe distance scale, esti-mating the distancewith the eye, as onewould use a , of course, is some-what uncertain and un-satisfactory. T w i n -lens cameras are heavyand unwieldy, and fo-cusing-finders are unre-liable. The best devicefor this purpose is thereflecting, or re-flex, style of camera, with a mirror arrangementby which one can see the game in full-sized image,upon a ground glass on top. With the slide with-drawn from the plate one can see to focus, andthen can snap the instant everything is , there is but one such now on themarket,—theGraflex,—which, having the monop-oly of the field, is excessively expensive. It isto be hoped that competition may soon put suchan instrument within the reach of all. To suc-cessfully photograph flying birds, or animals inrapid motion, a very rapid exposure is neces-sary, sometimes as short an interval as one one-thousandth of a second, and this can be attainedonly with what is called the focal-plane shut-. .MALE BUHUOWING OWL. (On guard at his front door, on a North Dakota prairie.) ter. Ihis can be fitted on to the back of theordinary camera. Yet it is hard, with this ar-rangement, to aim and focus accurately, and the reflex type of camera is far better. More-over, to match these short exposures, a veryrapid and rather expensive lens is required forthe best results, tliough one can accomplish muchwith a good ordinary lens by judicious manage-ment and under favorable circumstances. My purpose in this writing is simply to to others, especially my fellow-sportsmen,the possibilities and pleasure of hunting with,the camera. Just try it and see ! Take a cam-era along on the summer vacation or fishing-tripand experiment uponscenery, sportingscenes, young birds,domestic animals, andwhat not. Take it inthe ciisp, glorious au-tumn, when it is sucha keen delight to it on the wild fowlfrom the gunning-stand, when they haveswum in close to the
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