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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1442, 31 August 1885, Page 4

Tliere is probably no art or industry which requires—for the production of 'trood work— greater care and attention to details t-hnn doos tho art of photography. The public are little awnre of the numerous appliances and processes used m a firstclass photographic establishment. A visit to Mr Martin's stiulio at Waner.iuui will prove thin to be so, for it is here we find numerous rooms, each liavinp its own dnpnrtmontnl work ami a staff of • assistants to carry on f\v\t work. Wo nlso fiml electricity is employed m prodwincr tlio beautiful stippled effect for which Mr Martin's work U so much admired. But tlie most inteivsti'ipr and. we must.say, to our mind, tlie most complicated process is that of enamelling ; the nnvvnllons b'oauty imparted to the photograph by this prne<ss i« truly astonishing. And we are assurrod by Mr Martin that the oiinnielliutMiot only nrodwns this beautiful apijearance, but renders tho pic'niv prrinnrent by monns of its nir-tijrht and d-nun-pvoof co'itiufr. A yiait to 'Wanftanui. if for nothing <\]tp than 'nbp photoprnphed nt Mr Martin's, won'd be a highly : ntlsfoctory wny of spending a day,— rAnvT.V