FLASH-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY.
-IR,— The tollowing from the "British Journal Photographic Alamanac" for 1889 will throw a "flash-light" upon tome Hawke'a Bay claims : — " Lying dormant since 1865, flash-light photography has this year made astonishing Advances. The low price at which magnesium is now attainable has given an impetus to its employment in connection with quickly-flashing pyrotechnic compounds, and numerous portraits of a really high class have been .and are being taken by its agency. But not alone in connection with other compounds, for it is now a well-recognised means of lighting •when the magnesium powder pure and -simple ia protected through tho flanw of a jgas or spirit lamp flame. This, for winter evening photography, opens up a field in "domestic portraiture which, it is safe to Predict, will not remain long untilled."— am, &c,
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8332, 8 April 1889, Page 3
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135FLASH-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8332, 8 April 1889, Page 3
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