CHAPTER XVIII

The new arm of journalism—An essential need—A
cinema " miss "—Kindly correspondents—Pencil
versus camera—Unattainable ideals^—Photography
at a thousand yards—The beaten side the best
side—The useful cycle—Plates preferable to films
—Exposure and development—The camera in
future wars.

The concluding pages of a book devoted
to a subject such as this are not, I
think, an unfitting place for some
remarks on the possibilities and the
prospects which lie before the Press
photographer in the field of war, together
with certain considerations, more or less
of a technical character, suggested or
emphasized by my own experiences. The
remarkable development of the illustrated

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