Identifier: picturesofbirdli00lodg (find matches)
Title: Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lodge, R. B
Subjects: Birds -- Pictorial works
Publisher: London : S. H. Bousfield
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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, and have found Imperial ordinary platesmost excellent. Except for working in a very high wind,I would not ask for anything better; but on such occasionstheir special-rapid plate is perhaps to l)e preferred. Anotherbeautifully clean and brilliant plate for nest work is theA\arwick instantaneous plate. For developers I believe inold-fashioned pyro, with soda as accelerator. But in thesematters we all have oiu* own opinions and prejudices, andthere is plenty of room for difference of opinion. Then, besides the purely photographic outfit, a goodfield-glass is a sine qua iion. AVith such a load of necessarytools to be carried about, every ounce of weight is amatter of importance, and before the introduction of theprismatic glasses a powerful glass was a serious additionto the kit, already over-heavy. Xow a glass as powerfidas a telescope weighs so little as to l^e luinoticed. Tlieinnate timidity and incessant watchfulness displayed by eachand every member of the animal creation make some
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Waui.xg i.N SiAxisH Lagc 40 Pictures of Bird Life assistance to tlie sight absolutely necessary, and an ordinaryfield-glass is an immense improyement on the naked eye:but the new prismatic glasses present the object Avitlisuch clearness and ^•i^•id distinctness that they are assuperior to the old-fashioned glass as that was to theunassisted eyesight, while being half the size and half tlieMeight. They also giye a much larger field of yiew.I^ooking at a bird forty or fifty yards away with a C^oerzglass, medium power, I haye been fairly astonished at thebrilliancy and microscopic sharpness rendered by it. Notonly can you distinguish clearly the delicate markings of theplumage, but the yery fibre of its feathers and the twinkleof its eye can be seen as distinctly as if you were watchinga bird in a caoe close at hand. In fact, you can sec itmuch more distinctly, for the glass appears to giye a strong-stereoscopic effect, so that the bird seems to stand out fromits siuTonndings in a mo

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