The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14

his pictures through any combinations of
tinted glasses. The colors are imprinted
on the plate just as are the light and
shade in an ordinary monochrome photo
graph and are directly visible to the eye.
1t may be mentioned that Mr.. Bennetto
in his earliest experiments could get no
effects with a less exposure than three
minutes, now he is able to work with ex-
posures of sixteen seconds.
In strictness, of course, it is not possible
to know for certain that particular re-
suit is produced by a particular process
unless the nature of that process is also
known, and from that point of view it is
perhaps allowable to regard Mr.. Bennetto $
pictures with some degree of philosophical
suspicion. But he has been put to tests
which 1t is difficult to suppose he could
have satisfied did he not in fact do what
he claims to do. He was requested to TO-
Gus his apparatus on an easel. When he
had done so he was blindfolded and on the
easel was placed an impossible picture,
painted in impossible colors, which he had
never seen before. This he photographed
and developed, still without seeing the
original, with the result that the impossi-
BILE colors were reproduced in the photo
graph obtained. although they were, in
Mr.. Bennetto's own phrase, somewhat
degraded" OWING to sufficient exposure
not having been given.
Whatever may have been the methods
used, the pictures produced by them attain
a high standard of excellence. One of the
best specimens shown was a study of a
sunrise, taken early one morning in the
middle of June, 1895, in which the fiery
orange of the dawn and the heavy masses
of clouds were admirably represented.
The clouds, again, were excellent in a typi-
cal picture of Cornish seashore scenery,
and the tints of the sand and rocks and
their reflections in the pools were faith
In nj a
picture with wonderfully brilliant color
ing, it was stated that when the glass
pate on which it was printed was eXamin-
ed under a microscope, not only could
each individual mussel on the rocks in
the foreground be clearly discerned, but
that even the iridescent colors on their
shells were plainly distinguishable. Among
the other photographs were two pictures
of a girl draped in Liberty silks, whose
soft hues came out very well; a study of
a bank of trees in their autumnal foliage,
and a view in a garden with trees on one
side and bed of flowers on the other. In
this, while the checkering of the path by
the patches of bright sunlight streaming
through the trees was beautifully shown,
the flowers appeared almost too hard and
brilliant in their coloring, which was a
little suggestive of the fierce effects of
chrome photography. On the other hand,
in some pictures the flowers were rather
lacking III luSIre. POSSIBLY TINS is QueS-
ton of exposure. Perhaps the picture
which best illustrated the capabilities of
the process was one of a champagne bot
tie standing on a white tablecloth and sur
rounded with various fruits. Here there
were three or four different whites which
were ali distinguishable, but which it
would probably have taxed the powers of
any artist to represent by painting. The
gold foil on the bottle was exactly render
ed. and it was possible to tell that it was
full by the prismatic CLEAN of the liquid
The one unsatisfactory thing in the pic
ture was a spoon, whose sparkle was quite
lost; it looked as If it might have been
made of cardboard, covered with dun sii-
yer paper. The inventor looks forward
| among other things, to revolutionizing by
| his process the illustration of books and
magazines, and hopes to show in the flu
ture how to fash a picture on a screen sc
that permanent copy may be left be-
| hind.