NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY.
•'Sir, — Your footnote appended to my 'letter only shows how easily "repre- •' *en tatives of the Press " are misled . You '■state there is no magnesium light in Mr J Neal's process. It, like all the other ' instaneous processes, is nothing but mag- ■ tiesium, driven by pneumatic action either -through the flame of an Argand lamp, spirit lamp, or such-like apparatus, or fired in conjunction with picric acid, chlorate of potash, or gnn cotton. There are over a score of patents already taken' out under different names for what is commonly known and accepted under the name of " the flash light process," but (as the photographic journals show) the one most used ia that patented by James (a well-known lamp-maker), of London, and it can he had complete for about 15 shillings. Some of lhc lamps are only 4s 6d. lam sending the account contained in yours and your contemporary's columns to the! English photo, journals, that they may see that if we cannot invent at the antipodes at all events we can plagiarise.— lam, _c, Photo.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8332, 8 April 1889, Page 3
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178NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8332, 8 April 1889, Page 3
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