In the past few years, many thousands of amateur camera hobbyists have started taking pictures in full colour. This summer, thousands more will take up this fascinating form of photography, using full-colour films.
It is hard for some of us, who are used to black-and-white snapshots, to imagine taking a picture -in; full colour as easily as in black-and-white. Yet these colour films enable us to do just that. Moreover, the pictures are not prints on paper but film trans-patencies, ideal for viewing colour at its best. With simple projection equipment, these transparencies can be shown on a home screza magnified to almost any desired size.
Thousands of such colour pictures are being shown this year at the r New York World's Fair—projected on enormous screens so that each picture is enlarged s approximately 50,000 times.' Until one sees such an exhibition, is impossible to realize how much the presence of colour can add to photography.
Relatively few of the subjects we choose for pictures are lacking in colour. Count them over—children, flowers, scenes about the home, landscapes, picnics, and sports events, water scenes, sunsets, and the like. Study such subjects, and you begin to understand how much more life and realism they retain when pictured in full colour.
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