. Nature and the camera; how to photograph live birds and their nests; animals, wild and tame; reptiles; insects; fish and other aquatic forms; flowers, trees, and fungi . ameras are made to use a short-focus lens, which inwild-animal work is utterly useless. From my ownexperience the graflex camera seems the one bestfitted to the work; its great length of bellows willallow the use of the hand-camera telephoto lens,which has a magnification of 3^ diameters. Armedwith such an instrument, almost any kind of workmay be done, and with the least possible difficultyand the greatest possible chance o
. Nature and the camera; how to photograph live birds and their nests; animals, wild and tame; reptiles; insects; fish and other aquatic forms; flowers, trees, and fungi . ameras are made to use a short-focus lens, which inwild-animal work is utterly useless. From my ownexperience the graflex camera seems the one bestfitted to the work; its great length of bellows willallow the use of the hand-camera telephoto lens,which has a magnification of 3^ diameters. Armedwith such an instrument, almost any kind of workmay be done, and with the least possible difficultyand the greatest possible chance of success. It isperhaps needless to say that no outfit is completewithout a telephoto lens. For animal work the kindknown as the hand-camera one (such as that madeby Bausch & Lomb) is the best; it only magnifiesy/2 diameters, but that is as much as can safely berisked for hand-camera work or when the objectsare constantly moving. With a plastigmat fittedwith one of these telephoto lens I have made expo-sures of one hundredth of a second on live animalsin motion, and obtained very fair results. This wason a bright day, of course; in cloudy weather one 5 c 4:•r. t: i= X ft. -J -:— « «s - o —
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