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- theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -31/+125http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Color_Photos_from_World_War_I
http://digg.com/general_sciences/What_World_War_One_Looked_Like_In_Color
http://digg.com/tech_news/Original_Color_Photos_of_WWI
http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Internet_largest_collection_of_rare_color_photos_of_WWII
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Color_World_War_I_photos_must_see
http://digg.com/mods/Color_Photos_From_the_World_War_I_Era
http://digg.com/tech_news/WW1_Color_Photos
http://digg.com/tech_news/Color_Photos_taken_96_years_ago_
http://digg.com/tech_news/Color_World_War_I_photos_(must_see_)
Please, can we stop already? - CanceledCzech, on 10/12/2007, -20/+65No, we can't, and thanks for listing all those other links so that I know have easy access to all these awesome photos.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Better quality than my current digital camera!
- VMark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then?
Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It's just the world was black and white then.
Calvin: Really?
Dad: Yep. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
Calvin: That's really weird.
Dad: Well, truth is stranger than fiction.
Calvin: But then why are old paintings in color?! If their world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?
Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
Calvin: But... but how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have been shades of gray back then?
Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the '30s.
Calvin: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?
Calvin: The world is a complicated place, Hobbes.
Hobbes: Whenever it seem that way, I take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner. - willemmulder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15did you read the article or what? He took 3 pictures quickly after each other, each though a different color-filter. That way, he stored the 3 separate colors on 3 black-white photos.
He then projected the photos on one screen, also through 3 color-filters, and voila.
pretty smart guy :-) Now, he needed to add two others (just black/white but from 2 angles) for depth, and we had a 3Dimensional color picture of 100+ years back. wow. - resplence, on 10/12/2007, -7/+22@theblooms
So, which one should I digg? All of those or just the one I'm currently reading?
@ the digg dupe police
I don't know about you guys, but I don't think of digg as a place to go when I'm looking for any specific subject. In fact, its search function is such a pain to use that even if I tried that for a while, I'd just have to quit it.
That said, if I wanted to search for 'color photographs 1800', I'd try Google or del.icio.us. Google is an index, del.icio.us is an archive, a repository. And, as I see it, digg is for general stuff, news or not, that happens to be perceived as interesting by the community in a certain point in time.
Given it's ephemeral nature, it is hardly a place to go looking for content. I just see what's up. If nothing interests me particularly I move along. If I've seen something before, I might re-read it for the comments. If not, I just skip it.
I'm really fed up with the dupe police for constantly trying to shove its diggin' habits to the entire community, and demanding from everyone else their same overwhelming knowledge and awareness of internet trivia. - ajbutr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Inaccurate. Foto's of 1900's not 1800's
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Sergei's method is basically the same as when currently happens in a digital camera. The sensor only picks up the intensity of the light, not the color. A filter on top of the sensor called a Bayer filter has RGB pixels in a pattern. The image is demosaiced using the filter to determine the correct colors.
- shadus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I had never heard of the technique used by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii but it really produced some astounding and amazing looking pictures... any of those pictures, quality wise, could have been taken today. Completely out of this world.
- Tolzmaniac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9color? i didnt think color existed pre-1900
;) - DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8By the way, since each pixel does not itself have all 3 color filters, there is an interpolation using neighboring pixels to "guess" what the color of each pixel is.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Dear people who run digg,
I've noticed this a lot lately. Several times a day over the past link stories from upwards of a year ago are showing up on the front page. I'm not complaining these are dupes but I think these are spammers trying to game the system. To get quick cred they are just going back finding long ago popular stories and resubmitting them. This allows them to get quick karma and to build up a friends network. Just thought I would bring it to your attention. - swanny89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@irlmarc
you my friend, are an idiot. Only the first few pictures are from the Russian guy with the three-filter method. The rest were captured on actual photographic film. - Chesterfield, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Mikhailovich_Prokudin-Gorskii
You can download very high resolution images - novastar22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5that's Hermann Göring
- littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I'm feeling generous today.
- littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Thanks. Yup, he was gay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring
Göring was known for his extravagant tastes and garish clothing. Hans Rudel, the top Stuka pilot of the war, recalls in his war memoirs meeting Goering twice dressed in outlandish costumes: first a medieval hunting costume, practicing archery with his doctor, and second dressed in a russet toga fastened with a golden clasp, smoking an abnormally large pipe. As an aristocrat, he was a key connection between the former corporal Hitler and the traditional military elite. Göring, who had been married first to a Swedish baroness, built a vast Prussian estate, Carinhall, named after her. To avoid it falling into enemy hands, Göring had Carinhall blown up on April 20, 1945, immediately before attending Hitler's last birthday party. He exulted in aristocratic trappings, and after the Nazis conquered much of Europe, collected artworks looted from numerous museums, even some within Germany itself. Handsome and athletic in his youth, Göring sustained a painful injury during the Beer Hall Putsch, leaving him dependent on narcotic painkillers, particularly morphine. This addiction contributed to his later obesity. He would finally be cured of his addiction toward the end of his life during his imprisonment at Nuremberg. - andywirtanen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"It's just a news site, not a social network."
Yikes. - superrover, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4AHHHH MOTHER LAND!!!
- Ru55, on 10/12/2007, -12/+15@ theblooms
Yeah, thanks for the links- searching is such a chore! - DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"how did he capture the flame thrower"
Only the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, images are from Russia. Did you read? - ewy99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Calvin: The world is a complicated place, Hobbes.
Hobbes: Whenever it seem that way, I take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner."
I have this cartoon panel taped up on my monitor. - brbubba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah I don't think they had those kind of machine guns in the 1800's, ha ha.
- allholy1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.duggmirror.com
- JDelta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why stop posting this? This is gold man. This is history.
- GuyHitByTruck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I still say the "color-rerelease-of-a-1950's-movie" style of color kind of makes me wonder.. I can't really think of any other way to describe it, it just looks fake, the colors just aren't right.
- yatpay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Buried for inaccuracy. James Clerk Maxwell (the one who wrote Maxwell's Equations) created the first color photograph in 1861.
Here's a picture of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tartan_Ribbon.jpg - Systembomber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I find them amazing because when you look at them in black and white in history textbooks etc, they really don't look like real people, but when you see it in colour, they look really real!
- epalla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've heard before that if photos from WW1 and 2 had been taken in color they'd have faded already. Look at early color photos of your grandparents and stuff from the 50s and 60s, I bet they're very faded out, no matter how well taken care of they are.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I've definitely heard that B&W photos last quite a bit longer than color. - codemonkey2841, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like these pictures, its amazing to look at the way photographs have changed between then and now. These kinds of pictures never get old to me...
- headzoo, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1You're an idiot, that's why you got dugg down. Additionally, your information is far from fact, which is another reason you got dugg down. Everything you just said was based on your assumptions on how the pictures were taken. If you had actually read the words in between the pretty pictures, you would have found out exactly how those pictures were taken (Hint: Not at all like how you described).
- seabreezemm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love how factual information gets dug down on this board but someone post Calvin and Hobs and you trip over yourselves to approve. I guess I see what the level of intelligence is here.
- optimus_maximus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring
Those color photographs are waterpainted, which is a technique that film developers use. Even though it was developed in 1861, I doubt they took a prototype from Sweden and took it into wartime conditions in the US. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hitler in Technicolor Beta...swt
- lassel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Dugg down:
Only second rate tools doesn't make it transparent in the code which database you are using :p
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Line 220: dim DV as Dataview = new DataView(DS.tables(0)) - macamatition, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That flame thrower looks brutal. It sucks the Nazi's had to be the ones to research there weapons scientifically and try to make death rays.
- celcho, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1www.duggmirror.com
- Sventilator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Prokudin-Gorskii Collection at the Library of Congress:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/p?pp/prok:@field(NUMBER+prok)::SortBy=CALL - silent10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0gold
http://www.yamour.com/dating/ - mofotronimus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i like the photo from WW1 with the chocolate center. I think that might be an ancestor of mine (for real).
- rodneyprofit, on 09/08/2008, -0/+0http://www.datersden.com is a totally free dating site I found.
- AncientTV, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Hey its digg deja vu.
again
and again.
and again. - littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Can anyone remind me of who the guy is on Hitler's left in the second picture down (in the Hitler section)? He looks totally gay. Look at the boots. I bet Hitler did him on a regular basis.
- MattyLite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1That's the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the post headline :)
- knomevol, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1in the article, that picture titled "A Zindan (prison)" - isn't that funny!
all the prisoners are bunched up against the window and it looks like a guy sitting outside is taking the bars off while the guard looks like he's nervously trying to guard something. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4The first set (the russian photos) actually are not color picture. They are black and white pics colored in a second time. I've seen them on discovery channel or something a while ago..
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Well, I don't believe everything I see on the internet. I'm going to hold out for more info before I decide on this one. They do look too good for their time.
- BigBill62629, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1B0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-00-0-gus!
- seabreezemm, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1These are not out of the camera color photos! I am sorry you have misled and I can explain how it really works. With modern cameras and film, the film records the color image by way of 3 or 4 layers of gelatin that each sees a different color of the spectrum. They are perfectly sandwiched together and you, the viewer doesn’t know the difference. With the method that created these old images the film did not record the image since film as we know it did not exist yet. These were recorded on plates, either glass or copper and then hand colored on that plate and then those plates where used in a contact printing method to create the final print of sorts. The story is very misleading. How is it I know this? I Have a degree in photography and have been a professional for over 12 years and my area of study focused on the old methods. Next someone will have us believe that we had jumbo jets in 1742.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1the discovery channel documentary said that they were painted later on... i don't know.
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