Not long after the invention of flash photography, an automatic trip-wire camera was engineered to photographs animals ( guggisberg 1997 ). The resulting photographs were so exciting and unique that they regulary won awards and apeares in national geographic magazine between 1906-21 (sanderson and teolle 2005). A few zoologists recognized the scientific potential of this device and lerned how to use bulky camera equipment, wires, and flash powder to document the variety of wildlife in an area (carey 1992, chapman 1927, Gregory 1929). Unifortunately, the equipment remained unwieldy and complicated for anotor haft century, despite abbott and coombs’s . boast that their system was ‘’only 47 pounds.’’