The Telephoto Lens in Wild Bird and Animal Photography

It Was about 1908 that I first commenced to make motion pictures of wild song birds. My camera was an English Urban box camera, fitted with a 3 inch Carl Zeiss F 3.5 lens and holding 150 feet of negative. I well remember that my first subject was a house wren. Inasmuch as this bird is one of our smallest species, I soon found that, in order to secure an image of satisfactory size for projection purposes, I was obliged to get closer to the wrens than met their approval.

Print ISSN

0096-6460

Published

1926-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J00876