IMPERIAL CAMERA CO.
If yon should suggest to many a mate m photographers the idea of taking portraits ] of children, you would find that instead of meeting Urn' suggestion with enthusiasm, they would exhibit something very much like panic. Yet those who have made a practice of photographing children say that not only are they more attractive subjects for photography than adults, but if they are rightly handled they are less conscious of their - looks when in front 01 the camera, and far more naturally graceful and adaptable. From thro to six years j R the best age for picture-taking; then the little folks arc full of imagination and fancy, and they are as playful and unconscious as kittens. The most satisfactory place for making a picture of a child is athome, and that is where the amateur photographer has an advantage over the professional. At the studio all the unusual arrangements and the fact that it is a strange place makes it hard to get a natural and impossible to get a lively or jolly ,)o, ]Vie best results arc obtained by the Kodak, for the 10I! films develop in the Kodak tank developing machine in every wav superior to those produced m the old way. And there’s the 'great convenience of no dark room being required. Everyone who photographs or who is about to take up photography should at once take advantage of the Imperial Camera Co’s offer. The company will send free of anv charge whatever a valuable illustrated book of photography containing nearly Hire hundred paces. This book is of the greatest assistance to the amateur in the matter of details, advice, etc., and also gives prices ot all cameras and necessaries. Send to-day for it. A postcard will bring it you by return mail from the Imperial Co., 42 Willis Street, Wellington.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 March 1910, Page 1
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