Camera Colors

Eastman Kodak Co. last week introduced an improved method of printing color photographs direct from color transparencies. Up to now making color prints has involved three separate operations, three separate negatives, has cost the amateur about $2 per 2 1/4 by 3 1/4 in. picture. Most color photographers have been content with kodachromes, which are not prints at all but transparencies which must be held up to the light or projected on a screen to be seen.

Eastman's new method produces a print in one operation. Main principle: a triple coating of sensitive chemicals on the surface to be printed, each layer of chemicals picking up a different set of colors from the transparencies. Final prints are not on paper but on a sort of celluloid, are at present processed--like home movies in color--only at Eastman's laboratories.

A technical triumph, the process is yet of little practical importance. Photoengravers prefer to work with kodachromes to make plates from which magazines are printed. And most camera fans will find the prints--at 75-c- to $3.50 each--still too costly.

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