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OT: Colour photos from Russia in the early 1900s
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Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:18:11 GMT
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Prokudin-Gorskii took three B/W pictures through coloured filters and
would project the developed negatives through a three barelled
projector and the same colour filters, using a process known as
Digichromatography.

<http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/>

The Library of COngress has digitized the negatives and recombined
them in a photoshop type exercise to see the photo as it would have
appeared in colour.

THought this was pretty cool.

-Rob A>



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  Re: Colour photos from Russia in the early 1900s
 
(URL) would think the ol' dude could have at least smiled. Iain (20 years ago, 5-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: OT: Colour photos from Russia in the early 1900s
 
(...) It reminds me of an old Amiga product called the NewTek DigiView, a video digitizer. At the time, the circuitry to do colour video capture was expensive, as were colour CCD cameras. So NewTek suggested everyone buy black and white tube (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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