PHOTOGRAPHS IN NATURAL COLOURS.
A new patented process for producing photographs hi natural colours has been
j brongU fttit by fcbfl A.t fnlrttif phifri praph Company. Nt> claim is pit for- ' waM to the production of the colours on the negative, a feat which if no* iupos sible has never yet been accomplished. What the nega'ive do '8 i* to portray tne cn|ou r s "f the original m their proper rotative «r«diti >n of tone, which ia n development of ■ ttie ' orth'-ehrorn -tic' I roeess, as plu>to»rnph'-r- term itHasina; ohfained the negative, ih- nex»' s - et> is to yet a print. This print ip made to undergo a special treatment, mechanical m its nature, by which it receives 'he required colours. Only the piiinary colours are used; eveiy shad-' and gradaion of tone beine secured by the negative. No aitistic skill is needed to apply the colours, but how it is d np is not explained; . The final step consists m the * fixing' of the print-, by which the colours are made wattrproof m the process, and can be mounted on pnp n T, card, glass, opnl,< ret ter material. The I rocess is J.l c invention of a. French photograpl er, M. Victor Math ieu. The means being .mechanical, the co.t i_ but slightly m excess of the ordinary monochrome prints.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 963, 25 November 1891, Page 3
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223PHOTOGRAPHS IN NATURAL COLOURS. Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 963, 25 November 1891, Page 3
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