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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 50, 27 July 1885, Page 4

' There is probably no art or industry which requires — for "-the production of good work — groator care and attontiou to details than does the art of photogrtiphy'. The piiblic are little aware of tho numerous appliances and processes used- ma firsts clnss photographic establishment. A visit to Mr ■jiartin's studio at Wahganui will prove this to be fp, fpr.it is. here we find numerous rooms, each having its v owii departmental work and a staff of assistants -to : carry on that work. : We' also find electricity is employed m produoing the beautiful stippled elt'ect for which Mr Martin's work ' is so much admired. But tho most interesting and, we must say, to our mind, the most complicated process is .that -of onainolling; the marvellpns beauty imported to the photograph by. this process is truly astonishing. And we are assurred by Mr Martin that the enainelliugJiofc only produces this beauti- - •f ul ajjpoaraiice, but renders the picture permanent by means of its air-tight and damp-proof coating. A visit to Wanganui, if for notliing else than to be photographed at 'Mr Martin's, would be a highly satisfactory way ofispondingji day.— [Aj>yt.i;