5/6 extra: 1911 color photograph

russotto · 05-08-2001, 11:19 AM

Wow, no doubt the Russians are damn good at doing things the hard way, and willing to do it too. Three glass plates to make one photograph!

A cautionary note about the colors, though: No color photography produces a perfectly true image, and the same is true of this process. If they didn't have access to the original filters used to make the photos, they wouldn't have a prayer of getting them close to right. Even with them, it's necessarily an inexact process. The bright colors could reflect reality, or they could just be a result of some more or less arbitrary parameters chosen by the technicians.

05-08-2001, 11:19 AM	#2
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	Wow, no doubt the Russians are damn good at doing things the hard way, and willing to do it too. Three glass plates to make one photograph! A cautionary note about the colors, though: No color photography produces a perfectly true image, and the same is true of this process. If they didn't have access to the original filters used to make the photos, they wouldn't have a prayer of getting them close to right. Even with them, it's necessarily an inexact process. The bright colors could reflect reality, or they could just be a result of some more or less arbitrary parameters chosen by the technicians.

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