More Photographic Marvels.
Apart from the startling re*ul's of P;\,fV=sor Rmtgeu's great discovery, some clever things h-ive been dona recently in another field by the aid of photography, A well-known American sportsman has been for years making a collection of photographs of all kinds of wild animals in their native haunti, and many of these pictures, especially of am'mals about to spring at thdr intended prey, have been taken under conditions that made the skilful handling of the rifle highly necessary the instant after the camera was snapped. Another euthuiiaib hat devoted himself to
photographing animals of the forest in theft nightly wanderings. Be would ufe a wire, which wasconneofced with a flashlightapparatusi in the path of the anim&li he wished to photograph, and adjust the camera to that as tha animal came along and made contact' with tho wire in the fl«h the picture would be taken. , M. Bontao, tha European naturalist, who studies the wild life of (he Mediterranean in. the garb of a diver, has succeeded in taking lome photographs of the sea bottom. He use* a flashlight) obtained from a ipirit lamp and magnesium powder, which ia covered by a water* tight bell-jar. A barrel containing oxygen gas serves to work tbe lamp and the pneumatic shutter of tha camera. The camera itself is water-tight, and stands on a tripod near the b&rcel, so that the ihutter and the flashlight can be worked together.
More Photographic Marvels.
Otago Witness, Issue 2206, 11 June 1896, Page 52
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