The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-29
F. A. Jackson of West Haven First Man to Get Good Re-
 suits in This Vicinity.
A FRENCH DISCOVERY
Speaking Likencsses Produced lhat Are Truly Wonderful Ill Iheir
 Lifelike Effects.


 success of late in the line of colorea photography. He is F. A. Jacksoh' of 294 Main street. West Haven. MT. Jackson is paymaster at Sargents put his fad in his leisure hours is camera work. with which he has done re- | markedly we'll. MT. Jackson has been doing colored photography work Tor six or eight years in a general way but it has remained for him to be the first to do work with the new so-call- ed direct color photography With the Lumiere autochrom plate. An artlcle in the current issue of the Century Magazine shows some excellent exam pies of what can be done in this line of work. MT Jackson's results are fully as good as are any of those shown in this magazine. He has taken landscapes, portraits and flow CTS in the main and the pictures got have been wonderful.
 The story is told of one woman whose portrait he took who. upon seeing it, was so struck by its wonder ful color reproductions that she ab- solutely refused to go home until she could take it with her, for she did not want anything possibly to happen to it. The result was that she waited l for hours until the plate was perfect ly dry after its development and cap-l able of being handled
 One of the primary differences be- tween this method of colored photo graphy and ordinary work Is that in stead of printing from a plate upon paper, positive in colors is made di- rectly from the lens and it is this that must be held up to the Night much the same as a lantern slide to be seen. It is of course transparent. AS yet no means has been produced whereby printing may be done in colors though 1t is said that work toward the ac- complishment of such a result is very promising.
 Mir Jackson has been doing work with these new plates only since last November. The plates themselves are very expensive and the danger of making failure of them Is very | si0dt DSSobSc VI tiiio ouetSSSiui pictures are valued very high, often being considered worth $50. Moses C, Ferguson of 2s Center street, obtained the plates for MT. Jackson and thus became the first person to import them to New Haven. They are made in Lyons. France. by A. Lumiere X Sons The plates are the product of years of experiments on the part of Auguste and Louis Lumiere abroad and of their brother, Anton Lumere of New York. It was the latter who went 10 Paris last year and there took the first colored photographs of this nature ever made by an American.
 The process is the old three-color process perfected The plate is coat. ed in the making with starch grains of three colors. The plate is inserted into the camera In the reverse man ner from the ordinary plate, the gela. tine side being away from the lens in. stead of being toward 1t. In back o, the plate is placed background ot dull black cardboard and in front oi the lens is placed an expensive ray fil ter which has been carefully made and Is sold for this sole purpose.
 As the plates are sensitive to al dled in the dark room by deep ret light and even to this they must no be directly exposed. The develop. ment is done as rule In complete darkness Because of the reduced sensitiveness of the plates no instan taneous photographs can be taken.
 The first development Is done in { bath that oxidizes so quickly that it i. not poured into the tray until the las moment and it Is useless after ono, having been used The tray is GOV . cred all the while the development i going on, which is always exactly 12 minutes. They are then washed A second bath follows in which tn, image is reversed and the reversed black silver is dissolved and the col ors may then be seen by lookn. } through the plate.
 A second washing follows and thei second development which take ' place in a bright light for three O ; four minutes until the white parts o the images have completely turned : black. Then to intensity the colo and brilliancy the plate is put. after , thorough washing, in a solution whicl 5 destroys all trace of the development When the intensification is found t 3 be complete there is more washinl l and then a bath for clearing and nor
 washing and a bath for fixing an' then a final washing and then quicl and thorough drying to be followe'
 by vanishing to preserve 1t.
 This incomplete description of tn baths. through which the plates mus
 pass to completion with failure turk
 ing in their way at every step is givei to show the difficulties of the ney .. method of photography and the req son why successful pictures are nat urally valued so highly by their own CTS
 The method is being perfected al 7 the time and it is not to be suppose
 that before long there will not b , many amateur and professional phot ographers in New Haven who will
 courageous enough to follow in Nil Jaskscn's footsteps and do satisfac ! tory work in this regard too Befor
 long they will perfect a system c printing in colors and then all tn
 portrait photographers will go int
 the matter. In the meantime tn
 present system offers excellent meth nds of making heanffflIl lantern slide