The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-11-22
HURTING WITH A CAMERA.

Thanks to modern science n man
can enjoy all the delights of hunting
nowadays without wetting his hands
with blood. Equipped with a camera,
good lens and verious helpful de-
vices, i'm which he takes the same
pride as hunter does i'm his modern
rifle, he can bring home magnificent
trophies for the walls of his den with
out doing butchers work to secure
head or pelt. He can engage i'm a war
Of wits with the wild creature. taking
little longer odds no doubt, for Il Is
easier to get within shooting distance
of game than il is to get within cam
era range, and as for the danger the
man who goes after lions or other fero-
cious beasts with a camera surely re-
quires as much nerve as the other man
who takes an arsenal along and muir
ders the unsuspecting brutes at long
range. The hunt for dangerous ami
mails need not be discussed. however.
as the average man has no chance to
indulge in that variety of sport. Few
Of us can afford the outlay of time and
money required to reach the haunts
of the Jungle beasts, but all of us are
near enough to some bit of woods or
field to go camera hunting most any
day.
That Is one of the beauties of this
coming sport, that all game is fair
game fer the camera There is no
close season for the man with the lit
tie black box and no limit to his bag.
He requires no hunters license, no
membership in an expensive gun club
and ordinarily no guide In fact the
amateur has good chance to perfect
himself in the sport without going
very Ear afield and this practice, by
the way. Is an essential. Camera
hunting must be learned just the same
as hunting with shot gun or rifle. The
beginner at the sport must learn how
TO Judge distance even more accurately
than the marksman. He must study
the problems of light and speed If he Is
To catch his game on the wing or run
ming. He must learn to think quickly
and act promptly in focusing nnd
camera target practice at the less shy
and difficult subjects near home quite
rs fascinating at popping away at tin
cans or clay pigeons with firearms.
Moreover he must study the ways of
wild things quite as carefully as the
man who means to kill them, and, APP
preaching them with no murderous in
tent, he is more likely to learn init
mately of their habits than the sports
man who is planning to destroy them.
one of the most fascinating of cam
era sports is a night hunt from can
oe. The problem is to ascertain by
the tracks and other signs where game
Is i'm the habit of coming to the wa
ter's edge to drink. There, after dark,
the approach is made to that spOt very
stealthily, without noise and, of course
with no light in the canoe. The hunt
or can be guided only by sounds, and
must Judge his distance by the slight
noises made by the game and when he
believes himself within range and has
the camera pointed the flash is explod-
ed and the whole waters edge with
it's background Of forest is suddenly IL
Illuminated
A good negative of such n scene with
deer or moose starting at the flash
makes an enlargement which Is as
beautiful a thing to hang upon the
library wall as the branching antlers
of the game itself and is quite as con-
vincing a trophy of the owners skill
From Camera VS.. Rifle" in December
Technical World Magazine.