PHOTOGRAPHING TIGERS.
Mr. Cherry Kearton, the naturalist, has just left London for Agripore, bound on a daring expedition in the interests of kinematography. Equipped with an expensive photographic armament, it is his intention to obtain kineimitopjraph pictures of the tiger and man-like orang-outang in their native homo. Included in his equipment is a new invention —a kinoniatograph liana camera, which, by means of a pneumatically operated gyroscope, spinning inside, eliminates vibration, and by keeping the camera in one plane onfibles pictures to k> taken from any position or angle without tho use of a stand. Two years ago Mr. Kcartoii penetrated tho wilds of British East Africa and obtained some re.iiarkable pictures, every ono of them, with the single exception of a rare species of monkey, being of beasts in their native haunts. As in tho cas? of tho lion expedition, numbers of flashlight photographs will be taken at night, when the tiger visits, the water-holes, and will bo. used to enable. Mr. Kearton to become familiar vith the habits of tho various animals ho will encounter.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1111, 26 April 1911, Page 8
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177PHOTOGRAPHING TIGERS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1111, 26 April 1911, Page 8
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