"In Revolutionary Colour"

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Ian D J

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I don't often post in this part of this web site, but I had to do this thread to show you this link. If this topic had already been covered then I beg your forgiveness.

Considering these photos were taken in Russia almost 100 years ago, I say the picture quality are astonishing!

http://www.newsweek.com/id/214585

But, are they for real? Or they've been super-enhanced by someone with a LOT of photoshop know-how.

You decide.
 
Lots of those have the look of hand tinting to me.

A lovely and mostly forgotten art.
 
Beautiful...but you have to say "Rewolutionary" in Mr Chekov Star-Trek styleee for it to work properly...lol
 
brilliant...and prints too!!
 
best colour restorations I have seen from that age.
And the photographs are worth the effort.
 
They do look very good, but I don't think there is any hand tinting going on. Only a bit of digital enhancement of the colours perhaps.

The principle of shooting three separate filtered red, blue and green images, in black & white, is a sound theory and was not uncommon in the early days, before the three colours were integrated into one piece of film - Dufaycolor, Autochrome etc. You could only shoot static subjects with the three-exposures method though, which was understandably a bit of a drawback.
 
Some interesting stuff... there's been a fair amount of work recently on similar projects with WW1 and WW2 stills and video.

Some of my favourite stuff I've seen lately (and slightly linked to this topic) is a series of shots of Leningrad that are composites of wartime seige photos merged with photos from today - I think I posted a link on here a while back.

Edit: here it is http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=108956
 
HoppyUK said:
They do look very good, but I don't think there is any hand tinting going on. Only a bit of digital enhancement of the colours perhaps.

The principle of shooting three separate filtered red, blue and green images, in black & white, is a sound theory and was not uncommon in the early days, before the three colours were integrated into one piece of film - Dufaycolor, Autochrome etc. You could only shoot static subjects with the three-exposures method though, which was understandably a bit of a drawback.
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There were 3 colour plate cameras made for taking 3 plates at once, through filters and a beam splitter ( half silvered mirror) this were able to take instant though slow moving subjects.

There is an example of such a camera here They were called one shot cameras.
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/1377632_HJEJJ/1/65026459_3dDPF#65026900_rXuM4
 
The LOC doesn't seem to have put them in their Commons collection on Flickr yet. Would be good if they do.
 
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