COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3889, 25 September 1928, Page 16

COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY.

A NEW PROCESS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, August 10. At Mayfair Hotel last week a demon, stration was given of a new process of kinematography in natural colours which has been perfected by Kodak, Ltd. The invention is considered as important as the introduction of the Kodak in 1888. A transparent gelatine disc, divided into three sections representing the colours red, green, and blue-violet, is placed on the lens of the cine-Kodak. The subjects put the process to a severe test. Shining goldfish, witb translucent fins, swimming among green weeds, were shown. There were pictures of children in fancy dress romping on a lawn; of bathers in many-coloured costumes splashing in_ the blue sea; of fashionable creations in pastel colours worn by girls in a garden scene; and of flower studies, including a bunch of purple lilac. In these tlie tints and tones were reproduced with admirable accuracy. The process has the great merit of being at the service of the amateur with no expert knowledge at all—or, it should be said, will be so available, for “ Kodacolour ” will not be on the British market until next year. Furnished with the appropriate cinekodak, which is of a conveniently portable size, the operator has merely' to select his picture, and press a button, and the instrument automatically makes the picture, the reel being operated by a battery communicating with the button. The film is then developed, placed in a projecting apparatus electrically worked by attachment to an ordinary domestic electric fitting, and the picture is thrown upon the screen, which may be of a size suitable for indoor use. That used at the demonstration was less than a yard square.