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100 year old color photography


Andre LeBlanc

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Some stunning color photographs taken in Russia circa 1910. The photographic technique here is described as using "a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images."

 

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

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Some stunning color photographs taken in Russia circa 1910. The photographic technique here is described as using "a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images."

 

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

 

TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL!!!

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Not only are those images colored, but the crispness and the ammount of detail in those pictures look like they were taken yesterday, their quality rivals photographs that were taken back in the 90s, let alone the colored pictures of the 70s.

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Not only are those images colored, but the crispness and the ammount of detail in those pictures look like they were taken yesterday, their quality rivals photographs that were taken back in the 90s, let alone the colored pictures of the 70s.

 

That's what i thought when i saw those pictures..

 

How did they keep the film in good condition that stood 100 years?

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Ive seen these images before - simply amazing. It's like going back in time with a time machine. Interesting that the technique they used to obtain colour imagery is similar in concept to the Technicolour three strip process.

 

How did they keep the film in good condition that stood 100 years?

 

The negatives were exposed on glass plates which are more robust than film. Even so, there is some extremely old film lying around that still holds up pretty well. And as they are essentially black and white images, colour fading is not an issue.

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