The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-07-25
THE RAINBOW IN THE CAMERA.

Astonishing Statements About the Color
Negatives by the Lippman Process.
M. Berget, of the laboratory staff in
the department of physical research at
the Sorbonne has recently submitted
at meeting of the Photo club, of Paris,
some landscape negatives in color
which the Messrs. Lumiere have OBJ
tanned by the method of M. Lippman.
After many experiments the Lumieres
have succeeded in making gelatine-
bromure plates that retain their sensi-
tiveness long enough, and are of a tex
ture sufficiently delicate, to permit the
reproduction of colors, so that it was
possible at the meeting of the society
to see the marvellous results which
these photographers have obtained
The pictures that you behold in these
negatives are like aquarelles, says
Paris correspondent. Here is cluster
If flowers; roses, violets, jasmins APP
pear in their proper colors, their real
colors, with all their infinite delicacy
of multiple and various tones. Every
thing is there-the green, the white,
the blue, the red, the rose and the vio-
let, with their subtle. velvety hues-
everything is there except the fra
GRANGE of the flowers. Here, again, is
bit of park scenery with sky of ex-
Actly rendered blue, with graveled
pathways which one distinguishes with
perfect clearness from the earth graded
for the greensward; here is a ravishing
little cottage, all bathed in sunshine
and what sunshinel-and here a vista
under the trees made of somber greens
and light greens, the lights deliciously
distributed, and the whole view giving
the sensation of nature itself
Next was shown the Photographic
reproduction of a series of chrome
Autographs whose crude colors you
see on the boxes of wax matches in
daily use. Here is the Marshal Soult, -
or the figure so-called, who is depicted
with his '.frigate" hat, surmounted
with plume of superb white; that
tone of white" says M. Berget, s'the
reproduction of which Is the culmina-
ton of color photography" Here are
color photographs of colored carica-
lures, of the staring posters you have
seen SO many times on the walls that
you recognize the familiar hues when
the negative is exhibited under the
oxy-hydrogen light. There was also
shown color photograph of Japa-
nese screen with the exotic coloring
peculiar to that sort of painting.
M. Berget gave on this subject the
following explanations: Color photo
graphy has certainly just made a great
step forward. The problem is to-day
settled for we have now films equally
sensitive to all the colors. Observed
the blue and this white in the land
scapss which have been shown us. In
ordinary photographs the sky is, as
you know, of crude white; it is said
to be solarized. In these new photo
graphs the sky comes out with its own
true blue AS to that white which is
the resultant of all the simple colors in
combination, it is admirably repro
duced by the new films, because they
are sensitive to all the simple colors
alike. 1t must be said, however, that
it still remains to accelerate the time
of exposure which is now from TWEEN
ty-tive to thirty minutes, while at first
it exceeded an hour. 1t would be diff
cult to find a person obliging enough,
or anxious enough, to have his picture
taken in colors, to remain motionless
for half hour in the bright sunlight
Another desideratum: Every color
photograph now taken is unique, as
was formerly the case by the daguerreo-
type process. We need to discover a
method of making color prints on
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