There were early experiments in color photography in the late 19th century. I ran across a Library of Congress website a couple of years back that had color photos of Russia (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/). IIRC, The guy had a specially modified camera with three lenses and three photographic plates to be exposed, and put a different color filter over each one. When the film was developed, you would show each photo with the appropriate colored filters over it, and aim the 3 projectors so the images overlapped on the screen, and you'd see it in color. The website had done the same thing digitally - tinted each view the right color and meshed them digitally. Which is why I'm not incredibly skeptical of this - it might be a variant of the same technique, or another early experiment.
Glad you enujoyed my web site. The photos are color originals, not color tinited or colorizations. What makes it possible is that, while color photography had been around for a while, color film had not. The Lumiere brothers were the first to develop color film, making it possible for photos on the frontlines in a way not possible before.
There were early experiments in color photography in the late 19th century. I ran across a Library of Congress website a couple of years back that had color photos of Russia (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/). IIRC, The guy had a specially modified camera with three lenses and three photographic plates to be exposed, and put a different color filter over each one. When the film was developed, you would show each photo with the appropriate colored filters over it, and aim the 3 projectors so the images overlapped on the screen, and you'd see it in color. The website had done the same thing digitally - tinted each view the right color and meshed them digitally. Which is why I'm not incredibly skeptical of this - it might be a variant of the same technique, or another early experiment.
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...though, it leaves me confused. While I admit to not being that great on history I didn't hink they had color cameras in WWI.
...Oh, well, guess that what makes them nifty, huh?
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World War One Color Photos
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There were early experiments in color photography in the late 19th century. I ran across a Library of Congress website a couple of years back that had color photos of Russia (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/). IIRC, The guy had a specially modified camera with three lenses and three photographic plates to be exposed, and put a different color filter over each one. When the film was developed, you would show each photo with the appropriate colored filters over it, and aim the 3 projectors so the images overlapped on the screen, and you'd see it in color. The website had done the same thing digitally - tinted each view the right color and meshed them digitally. Which is why I'm not incredibly skeptical of this - it might be a variant of the same technique, or another early experiment.