PHOTOGRAPHS IN COLORS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12766, 22 June 1911, Page 6

PHOTOGRAPHS IN COLORS.

SUCCESS OF A NEW PROCESS

Tho secret of taking and. printing phhotographs in colour —a possibility sought after as eagerly by photographers as the philosopher's stone by the alchemists of old—seems now to have bp'en. achieved.

At the Dover-street studios 'a "Daily j Chronicle" representative was shown a number of photographs of well-known people in w*hicK'-the most delicate tints of eyes and cheeks and hair, of jewels« and laces aijd silks, had been reproduced on piiper,, sensitised by an entirely new process, so as to be an exact facsimile of tho actual colours seen by the 'evo of the camera."

"Although coloured plates of a kind have already' boon produced," the inventor, Mr. Hamburger, states, "I can claim that this is the first time that a true coloured.: photograph has been printed upon one ancl the samo sheet of paper without any touching up : or 'transmitting.' Hitherto colour photographs have been reproduced by the three-colour process—the primary coir ours, red, yellow and Wue, being laid one on tho top of another and blending into, something-that will pass for the real picture.'

"With this method, however, it was hardly ever possible* to get a pure j black q.v a pure grey. This we have ' managed to achieve. I miist.jTot ex- . plain the exact way it is done, as it if. a patent, l^ut the result is a photo- ' graph that caii be true even to the most infinitesimal- details, and indeed" 'cannot lie.'

"This portrait of Miss Lily Brayton was taken immediately after her Australian tour. Sho,is a little sunburnt, but'not a whit the less charming. Hero is another-of our triumphs—a lady hi p, black satin dross, with sleeves of black lace. You see how the delicate flesh tint shows through, yet without any blurring.. If you were to look at it tlirough f> microscope you would see Gvory thread of the lace.

"As yot, we have not been able to take any onen air photographs. Sunlight itself is too variable for our purposes, but i\ .special flashlight of our own has the photographic power of sunlight and the colours are exactly the-same as if they were seen in the full blaze of tho sun. Of course, if people want to ha taken in different circumstances,1 'in the dusk with the light behind them,' or in the glow of •firelight—well, we ican arrange our lighting effects^ to that end. As yot, however, the 'atmosphere' of landscaperemains tlio painter's monopoly. For how lorn; it will remain so is for the iutuiG to decide "