A New Process in Photography.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6711, 26 November 1889, Page 4

A New Process in Photography.

Messrs Wrigglesworth and Binns, the: well-known. Wellington photographers, have sent ns a couple of photographs representing with, rare softness and delicacy, the-onean old, the other a youthful face. One we recognise as a portrait of Judge. Bichmond, and have no hesitation in saying that a better presentation of his thought-worn, intellectual faoe it wonld be impossible to ask. The novel process by which these results are gained is thus highly spoken of in the Catholic Timesaa f oUowb :— " 'The Matt-Opal Type/ by which, the new process is to be known, n-img at giving a beautifully 'smooth but unpolished surface to albumenised silver photographs, and certainly this aim has been most successfully accomplished.. Such delightful, and artistio results upon albumenised paper we have-never hitherto seen. It is absolutely a treat for the eyeto gaze npon the fine shell-like surface, of these delicate piotures, possessing all' fhe-softness of an opal photograph, com--bined-%ith the sharpness and vigour of an, exceUent albumenised silver print. The change from the vulgar glare o! tha highly-enamelled, rolled, varnished, or-hot>-preaßed photograph, whioh we have been.aoooß*tomed to and endured for years paat, to these delicate, artistic productions, wifcl_isi_e appearance of an engraving Bpl«n3idly executed upoiua paper hitherto unknown for delicacy of surface, is almost enchanting by .ita novelty aad real acfcietia moot."