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- Leonaken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, those are even better-looking than any of the color photographs taken during the World War II era!
- djsdjs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OK, I'm a million minutes late on commenting on this thread, but I couldn't help but mention that this is EXACTLY how digital cameras capture color information.
In photoshop the "Channels" tab seperates you color into (SURPRISE) 3 grey scale layers. Each layer tracks the "Amount" of that color that should be applied to the composite view. "Filters" on the CMOS chip determine what color a given pixel captures.
It is not possible to know exactly how these would have looked in the old projection system, but they would look more like photos viewed on a computer than prints because with both projection and computers the "picture" is emitting light, rather than having it bounce off printed colors (which is also why slides generally look so much better than prints) - virus78, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Simply amazing! I had to keep reminding myself that these pics were almost 100 years old.
BTW, who cares if this is old news or that it was on /. a year ago. I never saw these before so I'm glad CLIFFosakaJAPAN posted the LOC link on Digg. So for those "dupe" police out there, get a freakin life! - squeeze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?prok:19:./temp/~pp_Bbl7::displayType=1:m856sd=prokc:m856sf=20174:@@@mdb=prok
^ i hope the link works...but theres a good example of what it looks like before photoshopping - doddilus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1colorized digitaly, it explains it all here:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html
"For the digital process, the original tri-part glass negative is scanned with an overhead digital camera in grayscale mode. Image-editing software converts the scan of the entire plate from negative to positive form. The scan is inverted to represent the original physical orientation.
The entire plate is then reduced to 8-bit grayscale mode. Under magnification, the quality of each image on the plate is reviewed for contrast, degree of color separation, extent of damage to the emulsion, and any other details that might affect the final color composite." - lordTalus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2errr...I'll submit the mandatory soviet russia comment.
In Soviet Russia, Picture take YOU! - CLIFFosakaJAPAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mrfx.....you're ignorant if you think this is fake. You have absolutely no faith in man's ability to think of new inventions before their time...
- knightmare, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i bet there are forged....prob falsy colored with the app that was posted on digg a few days ago...the color of their skin looks that way
- Overdose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love the picture of Russia it is so beautiful. TO bad the smog has ruined the air and it can never look so beautiful again.
- Korvaras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow. Those are incredible. You know, with all the black and white shots of the World Wars, you never really thought of the world in colour during those times. To see the world in colour from that era is absolutely incredible.
- Jetfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thought this was already Dugged. Read about it about a week ago or maybe read it on a different tech site. It is interesting though
- zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0btw, the first commercially successful color film system, technicolor, used a similar system. they used a single main lens, a prism beam splitter and finally color filters to split the light out into primaries. then they recorded each "color" onto different pieces of b&w film. as you might imagine the cameras were enormous and very complex (especially in later systems in the 30's when they devised better color reproduction). when the movie was "printed" they took each color strip of film and literally printed the colors onto each frame one color at a time with a dye. because of the type of dyes and film used during the early days of technicolor these films happen to be in amazing shape (the stock itself and the color correctness) and haven't turned to liquid as many newer acetate and nitrate based films...
here's a link to some info:
http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/oldcolor/technicolor1.htm
here's a pic of one of the later, better, but bigger cameras:
http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/oldcolor/technicolor_giants_in_england.jpg - RollingRock60, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that is unbelievable. Great Digg!!!!!!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg of the year! I swear
- SVPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WOW. Those are amazing. Clever folk the Russians...
- militaryace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool, great digg!!!
- idiggit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've seen these before, but I'm never tired of rewatching them.
Awesome to see pictures of those time with colors. Makes the world of difference.
No smog! - cyberdork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Finally this made it to the frontpage. The first time i dugg this story was 3 months ago, but it only got 28 diggs.
Amazing photos! - nils, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo old. Instead of slashdot dupes, do we now have digg.com duplicating all the old "news"? Great :-(
- kdehead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0old news alright, but still interesting to diggers who havent come across it before.
more in a similar vein:
world war one color photos
http://www.poiemadesign.com/wwi/index.html - MrPhelps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Incredibly cool ... seing this pictures in color makes it look like 1905 was yesterday ...
It's a shame photography has been invented so recently and not, say, in the times of the roman empire. - cyberdork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0kdehead - Are those WWI pictures true color photos??? They look colorized to me. http://digg.com/software/Coloring_Black_and_White_Photos
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0CLIFFosakaJAPAN u need your ass kicked for think this is true!
- baltakatei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mmmm, this article actually has more pictures. dugg.
- pagit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0diggy stuff. However they just worked off James Clerk Maxwell's discoveries who, with Thomas Sutton, took the first colour image in 1861 using the chromatic process. (they made slides not prints though).
- ycc2106, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, I knew that in the they had some in Switzerland in the 20's, for medical research.
Hey! Do the poll to say what bookmark manager you prefer:
http://quimble.com/poll/view_poll/224 - Wazza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just a second... http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87-8003.jpg
I've seen him somewhere before :-) - JAWS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0great digg!
- camtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i've seen the world war I photo on a tutorial site on how to make black and white images color
- Historian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's amazing how your perception of a black and white photo changes when you see the same image in color.
- dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 Wikipedia (thanks for the link nedbit) has a great explanation of how it worked. Three black and white photos were taken through red, green and blue filters (just like the layers in PhotoShop), then he projected the image using "correctly-coloured light".
He couldn't print them since there was no way to print colour photographs at that time. The Library of Congress was able to scan the "slides" and add the colours and combine them to make an image(link thanks to uglyredhonda).
If you read the explanation you can see it's not fake, it's so simple you wonder why no one thought of it sooner, although 1905 is soon enough! - Massif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Check out the ethnic diversity section and the picture of prisoners in Zindan. The crouching guy's face is just plain scary.
- drumman4ever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is a good read! Crazy stuff.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.recolored.com/index.php
I discovered the same technique. - HiddenForce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Simply amazing.
- Achra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is how Technicolor works too.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0amazing...
DIGG! - acardboardbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mad props to this guy. Dugg cause he was a genius.
- aeiou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And oh yeah.... There WAS COMMERCIAL COLOR FILM IN 1909! Check the timline I posted- in 1907 autochrome was made.
- jwalk81980, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is incredible.
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0CRAZY! Digg!
- Kashey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Old but good. There was a site where all those photos are in original format. And if you like you could try to match them yourself.
- Midnightbrewer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very, very cool. Interesting how we've come full circle, too; modern 3CCD cameras rely on this technique to capture color in high fidelity and reduce low light artifacts.
- squeeze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0just amazing, wow. it sent chills down my spine.
- joshv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This was on slashdot something like 2 years ago. And I was just getting used to digg beating slashdot to a story by a day or more...
- danio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0omfg
- SloppyJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love these,
What I find most interesting is that the technique used for film today isn't really that different! The 3 glass plates have been replaced by one celluloid frame with 3 (sometimes 4) layers. - metamike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg of the day for me... absolutely amazing!
- danio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.network54.com/Forum/211833/thread/1088370788/last-1088381193/Colour+WWI+photos+%28must+see%21%21%29
here are some colour photos from WWI - celticeric, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Absolutely amazing. I couldn't help thinking, however, that if the photographer had taken his technique a bit further and taken shots at slightly different angles, he could have created the first 3-D pictures. Now that would have been extra cool.
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