The photographic production of a picture in colours, as seen by the been the goal towards which im of nearly all professional Photographers and makers of photographic apparatus has been directed. There are at present no less than three claimants to the honour of producing wuch pictures, and we have had the pleasure of examining plates, the first we believe produced in Shanghai, which Teave the practical accomplishment of colour photography no longer in doubt. Messrs. Lumiére's process has been used to produce them, and Mr. J. Hervey Longhurst, who obtained the plates from the makers, has achieved the results, In appearance, the plates are identical with coloured Iantern slides of quarter-plate size, and the subjects chosen—porcelain, flower studies, an oil-Pritiog, & portrait from life, ete—the wide range of ies. The gradation and brilliancy of the colours are perfect, and the detail is perfectly sharp. One plate in necessary for each exposure, and at present it is impossible to multiply the result by printing on sensitized paper, Che FE. therald and S. C. & C. Gazette, Fes 7 1908 in monochrome photography. The exposure necessary for a portrait on Sunday last in well-lighted room, was 30 seconds. The operations of development are rather complex, entailing no less than nine different baths, the first of which mast be carried on in absolute darkness and the reminder in daylight, about half-an-hour being required to produce a finished picture. Though it would seem that failure might have been expected, the whole six plates that were exposed were successful—a record that few amateurs can boast of propose to the Council that in the matter of memorials and letters to myself and to the provincial authorities they should not use such expensive kinds of paper nor such big sheets, on the greater part of which nothing When circumstances permit, quarter sheet only should it should also be of an
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