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Just took a peek... early 1900's London... quite amusing, but THEN....
I spotted this set at the bottom... 100 year old COLOUR photo's!
Pre-War Tzarist Russia. Absolutely incredible. Peeking at a couple of them, I suspect this is the early, 'seperation' method, taking three black & white plates, with red, green and blue filters; which were extremely difficult to print and usually produced quite flat and artificial colours. But these seem to have been made from the original negative seperations and digitally recombined, and are superb!
I spotted this set at the bottom... 100 year old COLOUR photo's!
Pre-War Tzarist Russia. Absolutely incredible. Peeking at a couple of them, I suspect this is the early, 'seperation' method, taking three black & white plates, with red, green and blue filters; which were extremely difficult to print and usually produced quite flat and artificial colours. But these seem to have been made from the original negative seperations and digitally recombined, and are superb!
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Thanks for posting this. I always enjoy looking at photographs of people and places from long ago. I'm interested in history and photographs give a very graphic dimension to what they really looked like in various periods. For example, my father grew up in Glasgow and was just old enough to remember the First World War. He often told me about those days when I was a kid, but it was difficult to picture it until I saw photographs when I was older.
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Yeah,there's some fine stuff on there. Seeing colour pics that good from so long ago gives me a similar shiver to how I feel when seeing artworks and artefacts from 3,000BC. We're no more intelligent or creative than they were, we simply have a different technology.
Humans sometimes get it right!
Humans sometimes get it right!
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lol, Mostly shots of women you mean? ....nope same today as always.
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Just took a peek... early 1900's London... quite amusing, but THEN....
I spotted this set at the bottom... 100 year old COLOUR photo's!
Pre-War Tzarist Russia. Absolutely incredible. Peeking at a couple of them, I suspect this is the early, 'seperation' method, taking three black & white plates, with red, green and blue filters; which were extremely difficult to print and usually produced quite flat and artificial colours. But these seem to have been made from the original negative seperations and digitally recombined, and are superb!
Those are stunning. My first thought was that they must have been later as the quality just seems too good. But everything else suggests they are of that period.
Beautiful...thanks for the link
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I sat and I looked..I turned the monitor and showed one or two to the O/H and asked her old she thought they were; 100, 50, 25 or 10 years... she plumped for 25!
It is almost unbelievable..
But it was this one, that gave clue to them being seperation negs, hence more likely to be genuine.
Look at the registry error in the small child in the bottom left corner.
Then again, the colour shifts in the smoke, where its moved between exposures
And again in the ripples in the river.
Of course, the technique might have been applied in recent times.... but attribution to source and photographer, would support them being genuine.
There are a couple of other sets there as well; many seem to have been taken for 'stereo-scope' and and they have reproduced both colour images.
Some World War 1 German 'Behind the Lines' shots; and some more of The San Fransisco great-quake devistation.
Amazing stuff!