alexander_n2 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 <p>Here is an interesting article on the BBC from a couple of days ago about a Russian photographer and his color photographs 100 years ago.<br> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-17449958</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_shriver Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 <p>More informative link from many years ago:<br> http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/<br> They are really wonderful pictures. Three sequential exposures on three panchromatic glass plates through red, green, and blue filters. Originally viewed by three separate projectors with color filters, holding positive plates.<br> I particularly like the Emir of Bukhara on this page: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ethnic.html<br> Water comes out strange, since it wouldn't stay still for the three exposures. Some of the people are color-fringed as well.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauren_macintosh Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 <p>John thanks for the additional link to those photographs, Alexander thanks for post this information</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_the_waste Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 <p>Even if they weren't perfect, they were still pretty damned good for their time.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick_drawbridge Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 <p>Fascinating. Thanks, Alexander, and John.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony_lockerbie Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 <p>They are really good...amazing really. Funny, but because they are colour you kind of assume that they are some kind of re-enactment!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starvy Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 I had posted the same story in another photo.net forum and I wonder if the moderator would consider either deleting mine or perhaps merging it with this which has had more comments? http://www.photo.net/street-documentary-photography-forum/00aB41 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick j dempsey Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 <p>Just remember... these are technically three separate B&W photographs which have been carefully digitally filtered and overlayed to simulate the effect of projecting them with three overlapping filtered projectors, which is the only way they could have been viewed before the invention of color prints. <br> A very similar process was used to film the "color" portions of The Wizard of Oz and is (or was?) still used to create stable archival copies of color films due to the immense superiority of B&W emulsion resistance to fading. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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