Friday, August 19, 2011

Incredible colour photos from the early 1900s!

I just came across this site from a poster on Facebook. Truly amazing, clear colour photos from 1910 and earlier, using a process of taking three exposures one after another, each with a coloured filter (red green and blue), later combining them to form a full colour image.

A small example:


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3 comments:

  1. I'm remember too a Flickr Group with color plates from the same era:

    http://www.flickr.com/groups/703767@N21/

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