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Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« on: February 19, 2013, 01:10:37 PM »
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Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2013, 01:45:39 PM »
Wow!!
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2013, 02:26:51 PM »
these are awesome. Is there any obvious reason why it looks like some of the colored layers dont line up. Could it be uneven coating of the dye layers? I would assume that back in 1910 they didnt have perfect machinery yet.
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2013, 02:51:58 PM »
Actually I think it's due to the fact that he did three exposures one after the other and if there was movement in between then you would get those artefacts.
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2013, 03:20:23 PM »
From the article:

"He used 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. "
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2013, 03:23:02 PM »
Ah, good old Prokudin-Gorskii, these aren't so much pictures as a small window back in time.

It's hard to imagine just how ground-breaking these shots must have been when they were originally made, and they're still quite astonishing to look at today.

There's more at the Library of Congress site.
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2013, 03:24:07 PM »
sorry! reading > me
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2013, 04:14:01 PM »
He used a trichrome camera.
There are still people who use them, but more for artistic purposes.

http://trichromie.free.fr/trichromie/index.php?
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2013, 04:55:40 PM »
Quote from: TinTin on February 19, 2013, 03:24:07 PM
sorry! reading > me

Your eye probably jumped straight to the beautiful images.  :)
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2013, 05:47:19 PM »
Outstanding.
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2013, 06:28:24 PM »
magical! It's like a time machine. Thanks for posting!!
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2013, 08:45:02 PM »
What amazes me is how incredibly sharp they are! Astounding!
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2013, 09:48:18 PM »
Amazing!

I'd only seen 4 of these before, thanks for posting!

Now to check out Francois's link to the camera...
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2013, 10:08:53 PM »
Just check out the "Matériel Trichrome" section.
Here is the exact camera used to make the Russian series
http://trichromie.free.fr/trichromie/index.php?post/2010/09/24/Machine

You might find this even more interesting
http://www.vintagephoto.tv/bermpohl_img.shtml

This is how many of the cameras work.
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #14 on: February 19, 2013, 10:12:27 PM »
Brilliant.
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2013, 11:26:12 PM »
And it predates Technicolor by five or six years.  They had reg problems too...
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #16 on: February 20, 2013, 07:50:41 AM »
Wonderful. How the world was so different then. And, with hindsight, seeing these knowing what was about to come and how the world would change in the following decades..
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2013, 08:37:59 AM »
Quote from: Francois on February 19, 2013, 10:08:53 PM
Just check out the "Matériel Trichrome" section.
Here is the exact camera used to make the Russian series
http://trichromie.free.fr/trichromie/index.php?post/2010/09/24/Machine

You might find this even more interesting
http://www.vintagephoto.tv/bermpohl_img.shtml

This is how many of the cameras work.

Thanks for these extras! 

They are amazing!
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Re: Incredible color photos from Russia 1910!
« Reply #18 on: February 20, 2013, 08:43:06 AM »
The Bermpohl looks wonderful.

This, by comparison, is a very silly 'multitemporal'.  Small, because I've never tried it on film ...

props_copy by Sandeha Lynch, on Flickr
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