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Offline Rictor

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Amazing colour photos from 1909.
on: December 09, 2005, 08:18:57 pm
Once again, the Russians deserve kudos. And it's not crap quality either, the colours are vibrant and the images are sharp and clear.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=245

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Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii embarked on a photographic survey of his homeland and captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. His photographic plates were black and white, but he had developed an ingenious photographic technique which allowed him to use them to produce accurate color images

Whole gallery over at the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
 

Offline Cobra

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #1 on: December 09, 2005, 08:29:44 pm
well, dayamn! not bad, but i can't help thinking it's a scam. :nervous:
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Offline Rictor

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #2 on: December 09, 2005, 08:44:43 pm
nah, its in the LoC, so it's legit.
 

Offline Grey Wolf

Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #3 on: December 09, 2005, 08:56:55 pm
Those are really quite amazing.
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Offline Goober5000

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #4 on: December 09, 2005, 09:48:57 pm
Whoa.  Very impressive.
 

Offline Unknown Target

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #5 on: December 09, 2005, 09:58:07 pm
My Gods...this is stunning...and really makes the people from that era seem...real.
 

Offline WMCoolmon

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #6 on: December 10, 2005, 02:41:04 am
Those are so much better than my pictures. :(
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Offline FireCrack

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #7 on: December 10, 2005, 03:37:56 am
Wow, wonderous!
actualy, mabye not.
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Offline pyro-manic

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #8 on: December 11, 2005, 12:58:36 pm
Oooh. Nice find. :yes:

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Any fool can pull a trigger...
 

Offline aldo_14

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #9 on: December 11, 2005, 01:09:03 pm
Crikey.
 

Offline BlackDove

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #10 on: December 11, 2005, 01:21:27 pm
Very kickass.
 

Offline Kamikaze

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #11 on: December 11, 2005, 05:55:06 pm
 :eek2:

Those photos are beautiful.
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Offline Stealth

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #12 on: December 11, 2005, 08:51:12 pm
yeah that first picture really is outstanding.
 

Offline Night Hammer

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #13 on: December 11, 2005, 08:53:55 pm
wow those are... wow
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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #14 on: December 12, 2005, 12:53:15 am
I'm guessing he did the three-color thing with filters?  I am curious how he got transient things (clouds, for instance) to line up properly though.

EDIT: Oh, it was a special contraption that did it automatically.  Cool.  Very similar to how color channels on, say, a computer screen work.
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Offline Lt.Cannonfodder

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #15 on: December 13, 2005, 10:52:50 pm
 

Offline Flipside

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #16 on: December 13, 2005, 11:01:45 pm
This stuff is a Goldmine, it's like a window on the past :D

I think it makes the images seem so much more 'real' in colour, makes you realise the universe really did exist before you were born.
  

Offline kode

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Re: Amazing colour photos from 1909.
Reply #17 on: December 14, 2005, 01:58:41 am
Quote from: Flipside on December 13, 2005, 11:01:45 pm
This stuff is a Goldmine, it's like a window on the past :D

I think it makes the images seem so much more 'real' in colour, makes you realise the universe really did exist before you were born.

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