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I. IN reviewing the recent progress of the various processes, direct and indirect, of the reproduction of colours by photography, it is obvious that there is no very remarkable advancement to report. The ultimate aim of those who do fundamental work at this subject is to formulate a method that shall automatically reproduce the colours of the original, just as by means of a camera and lens the form of the original is automatically drawn in true perspective. The realisation of this desideratum does not seem at hand. There is no method of producing colour prints known that does not need so much control in the working of it or alteration of its results, that it would be incorrect to regard the final products as simple photographs. The skill and sometimes the taste of the operator, and the nature of the appliances that he makes use of, have an important effect upon the work. This fact may lead to the idea that photographic methods of colour reproduction are of little use. But by the aid of photography results may be obtained that were impossible before, either in their character or in the economy of their production. Photography in portraiture is not considered useless because the negative goes through the hands of the retoucher.
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JONES, C. Developments of Three-Colour Photographic Processes 1 . Nature 70, 553–555 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070553e0
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