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Posted by Ignoramus27020 on February 18, 2010, 5:00 pm
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http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87_4207__00507_.jpg
Apparently, someone named ergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii invented
a certain method of color photography and took a number of pictures of
Russia prior to WWI. The method involved taking three pictures with
three different color filters. I believe that at the time they had no
way of combining the color, but the photo plates were kept and
developed in the United States decades later.
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Posted by Jim Wilkins on February 18, 2010, 5:11 pm
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On Feb 18, 5:00=A0pm, Ignoramus27020 <ignoramus27...@NOSPAM.
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> http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87_4207__00507_.jpg
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> Apparently, someone named ergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii invented
> a certain method of color photography and took a number of pictures of
> Russia prior to WWI. The method involved taking three pictures with
> three different color filters. I believe that at the time they had no
> way of combining the color, but the photo plates were kept and
> developed in the United States decades later.
>
> i
Samples of his work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography
jsw
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Posted by Pete C. on February 18, 2010, 6:00 pm
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Ignoramus27020 wrote:
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> http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87_4207__00507_.jpg
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> Apparently, someone named ergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii invented
> a certain method of color photography and took a number of pictures of
> Russia prior to WWI. The method involved taking three pictures with
> three different color filters. I believe that at the time they had no
> way of combining the color, but the photo plates were kept and
> developed in the United States decades later.
>
> i
Very cool.
I believe you are incorrect on that last part, the "Making color
images..." page on the site indicates that the images were shown in
slide shows using a triple projector with the matching three color
filters.
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Posted by Al A. on February 18, 2010, 8:03 pm
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On 2/18/2010 5:00 PM, Ignoramus27020 wrote:
> http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87_4207__00507_.jpg
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> Apparently, someone named ergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii invented
> a certain method of color photography and took a number of pictures of
> Russia prior to WWI. The method involved taking three pictures with
> three different color filters. I believe that at the time they had no
> way of combining the color, but the photo plates were kept and
> developed in the United States decades later.
>
> i
Wow, interesting. My wife's grandfather had a few still-life photos
hanging in his home years back. They were bowls of fruit or something
similar, nice, but not really remarkable. I remember asking him about
them one time, as I knew he had studied photography and film making in
Germany before he came to the US, just before WW2. He described a
process similar to this, taking 3 photos of the same thing through
filters, then combining them when you made a print. He said that when he
made them, it was a tricky process for a do-it-yourselfer with a pretty
low yield. It took a number of tries to get a good print. While they
looked unremarkable now, they never failed to get comments at the time
he made them, when he and had them hanging in his office.
Thanks for posting that.
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Posted by on February 18, 2010, 9:40 pm
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On Feb 18, 3:00=A0pm, Ignoramus27020 <ignoramus27...@NOSPAM.
27020.invalid> wrote:
> http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87_4207__00507_.jpg
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> Apparently, someone named ergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii invented
> a certain method of color photography and took a number of pictures of
> Russia prior to WWI. The method involved taking three pictures with
> three different color filters. I believe that at the time they had no
> way of combining the color, but the photo plates were kept and
> developed in the United States decades later.
>
> i
There were lots of ways of getting a color photo back then, just that
most were inconvenient, or slow or both. Autochrome was one method,
involved colored grains of potato starch as a three-color mask layer
over a regular glass plate emulsion, was a lot slower than the slow
emulsions of the time due to the filtering, but could be developed
using regular photo chemicals of the period and when properly done,
left a color positive that could be projected in lantern slide
projectors. Another method was the tri-pack camera, used three
regular plates and three color filters, one lens with mirrors and/or
prisms inside to divide up the image. These could be printed using
carbro or other non-silver printing methods, the camera was bulky and
the printing was a long and messy affair,but could be done. I've got
WW1 color photos that were reproduced in a recent history. Not action
photos, stills and posed stuff, but still, period color photos. There
are several books that detail all the early history of color
photography, it DIDN'T start with Kodachrome! One thing about those
early tri-pack photos, they didn't depend on organic dyes that
eventually faded away. Technicolor was a similar silver-based color
method. If the emulsion and backing is still intact, the three silver
negative images can still be processed to give true color even today.
Amateurs without the money for a tri-pack could invest in a heavy
tripod and the three color filters and then take three shots in
succession using the filters. They'd have to make sure that the
camera didn't move and mark the negatives as to what filter was used
with each in order to get a decent print, it was done, but too much
fiddling around for only still-lifes for most.
Stan
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> Apparently, someone named ergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii invented
> a certain method of color photography and took a number of pictures of
> Russia prior to WWI. The method involved taking three pictures with
> three different color filters. I believe that at the time they had no
> way of combining the color, but the photo plates were kept and
> developed in the United States decades later.
>
> i