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MARCH 16, 1883.] THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. 173 filled, their average number of sitters being, 1 was told, about thirty : prices received for cabinet, 40s. per dozen ; enamelled, 50s. per dozen. The speciality of this firm seems to be instantaneous photographs of children, great care and attention being paid to the lighting and posing of this, the most delightful of all classes of portraiture. The C'o'onials Beem to have a great fancy for enamelled pictures; in fact, Mr. Hasler told me the most of their customers would not have pictures unless enamelled. Both Mr. Lindt and Messrs. Johnson, O’Shanessy, and Co., are holders ot medals and orders of merit from all the exhibi tions at which they have shown their work. In Dunedin the two names most to the front are, for ortraits, Mr. Morris, and for landscapes, Mr. Burton. Mr. [orris received me very heartily, and readily showed me all over his model establishment. The studio is one of the prettiest I have been into, Mr. Morris having discarded the usual bluish tint for the walls, and instead has had his studio very nicely papered and painted, the walls being decorated with antique ornaments, one or two nice little sketches in oils, and sundry nick nacks, which all go to make a pleasing variety for the eye to rest on while “ being took.” Great attention is paid to retouching, Mr. Morris assuring me that he personally gave the finishing touches to all negatives before passing them to the printer. In re the much discussed proofs question, all proofs from this studio are submitted untouched, and he does not find any excep tion taken to this method, any objection as to the roughness of the face, &c., being met by showing a nicely-retouched and finished proof of some previous sitter alongside of of their rough proof—one great recommendation to this system being that sitters can see proofs in two days, and, in cases of urgency, the day after sitting. I find that dry plates have not wholly supplanted by wet in this part of the world ; but Mr. Morris’ work, both wet and dry, leaves very little to be desired, I spent several pleasant half-hours chatting with Mr. Burton, through whose charming series of New Zealand scenery it gave me very great pleasure to look. Mr. Burton has quite laid aside the wet plates, and has done several successful trips with the dry. From his graphic description of the many difficulties encountered by the landscape photo grapher in New Zealand, the unusual advantage of dry versus wet is conclusively shown, and certainly, with such results as Mr. Burton showed me, he will have no cause to regret the change. 1 had the pleasure of meeting with several amateurs here, one in particular, Mr. John Sommerville, ajgenial Scotch man, who showed me some work of his done about fourteen years ago, which would do credit to many a modern pro- fessional. One thing that has struck me in my visits to the Colonial photographers is the good feeling that exists amongst them towards one another. I only in one instance met with a firm who had a secret process, and was rather amused to find that this said secret was worked many years ago by an amateur in Dunedin. The above-mentioned secret (!) is a very clever style of combination printing which I may, on my return to the old country, trouble your readers with a description of. There is nothing new in all the foregoing gossip, and I can only plead, as my excuse for occupying valuable space, the pleasurable interest the visits I have attempted to describe, gave me.—1 am, dear sir yours truly, E. N. E. CHERRY FABRIC. Sir,—Will you permit us to thank Captain Abney for pointing out in his paper, published last week, that when cherry fabric is employed to protect against the electric light, “ it should be used with orange paper to cut off the blue and violet, and then nothing but red will pass.” A fact of value cannot be repeated too often, and therefore, this repetition of our own statement we are grateful for. When we first submitted the material to the attention of your readers we not only enclosed a sample in the Photo graphic News, so that photographers might judge for themselves, but we had printed on every sample “ the cherry fabric is a sure protection against ordinary artificial light, and with a sheet of orange or non-actinic paper will shield against full sunlight or electric light.” By ordinary artificial light we mean a candle flame or small gas jet, such as is employed in most dark rooms ; and although you, sir, pointed out some months ago that cherry fabric was penetrated by the light of a fish-tail burner, this was after an exposure of five minutes. In any case, for gas flames, a double thickness of cherry fabric may always be relied upon—for pinholes cannot always be avoided in the manufacture ; while protection from daylight or electric light may be ensured, as we said, by employing orange paper in conjunction with the fabric. We have troubled you with this note, since it might appear to some that Captain Abney’s observation was original. We would not for one moment desire to interfere with the harmless amusement of the gallant captain in slaying the slain before the members of the Photographic Society, but when a statement appears in print we feel, in justice to ourselves that some attention should be paid to it. May we add that we feel particularly grateful to Mr. Samuel Fry and others, who gave the cherry fabric so good a character at the last meeting of the South London Society.—Yours, &c., Law, Sons, & Co. Foots Cray Mills, Kent. IODIDE IN GELATINE EMULSION. Sir,—In reply to Mr. Penny, in your last number but one, allow me to say that the “amusing non sequitur" is made bylgiving his own interpretation to the case in point. —Yours faithfully, W. de W. Abney. REDUCING OVER-PRINTED SILVER PRINTS. Sir,—The subject of reducing over-printed silver prints having again cropped up, will you permit me to describe a process I have lately used with unqualified success. After removing from the hypo, bath such prints as have been rightly printed, I lift the remainder up, and add to the fixing solution a small quantity of tincture of iodine and a solution of cyanide of potassium, then again im merse the prints. I cannot give any definite proportions, as I have simply worked by the rule-of-thumb, according to the depth of my prints; but this I can say, that prints apparently use less—and which would have been so, perhaps, otherwise treated—come up as bright and vigorous as those which have received but the ordinary treatment, and, what is more to the purpose, but little altered, and often improved in tone.— Yours truly, R. Stanley Freeman. “INK-PHOTO.” Sir,—Referring to an article an your issue of March 9 th last, by Mr. T. W. Wilkinson, we beg to remind you that the name “ Ink-photo” was copyrighted by us, and duly registered as a trade-mark; and we must caution your readers against any infringement or colourable imitation of it. Our process being a secret one, we shall not attempt to put Mr. T. W. Wilkinson right, but are quite content that your readers should prove for themselves how very far he is wrong, reminding them that they are not at liberty to infringe our trade-mark by calling any results they may obtain by any process whatever “ Ink-Photos.”—We are, sir, your obedient servants, Sprague and Co.