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Here is another made with the Leica Monochrom

 

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Camera on tripod and three exposures with red green and blue filters. The respective exposures were then each 'colourised' red, green and blue in Photoshop, then the three images blended equally. Changing the strength of the filter, and the percentage of blending for each colour in Photoshop can considerably refine the outcome. Like Ian I never followed the experiment up but it was fun nevertheless.

 

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I used to do this with film cameras & B&W film in the 1960s to demonstrate to science classes - except that I used three projectors and a screen. Black magic never had it as good....people were blown away. I found that you can actually get away with doing it in only 2 colors if you aren't too picky (I used red & blue filters).

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The respective exposures were then each 'colourised' red, green and blue in Photoshop, then the three images blended equally.

My recommendation is to switch to ‘Channels’ and paste each of the three monochrome images into the matching RGB channel. Then switch back to the ‘Layers’ tab, create a ‘Curves’ adjustment layer and mix the channels to your heart’s content. Individual curves for the red, green, and blue channel are much more powerful than just blending layers.

 

If you are striving for realistic colours it would be a good idea to take a picture (well, three pictures) of a ColorChecker target to profile the filters used. Of course the RGB image of the target would be created without an adjustment layer or any other modification; just insert the three images into the corresponding channels and save the result.

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Red clouds: moving away from viewer.

 

Yea... the famous "Red Shift" of far galaxyes... :)

 

Fascinating exercise... from the series "nothing new under the Sun"... Leitz "mixed the channels" 80 years ago around... ;)

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It was an Agfacolor system that used a special film with micro/lenticular surface made for slide projection... with the projector that used a similar filter in front of its lens... long to explain... one can find the short history of it on the Net (it was soon killed by the Kodachrome system) , in German, for instance Linsenrasterverfahren – Wikipedia ; the above Hektor 7,3cm was made for this odd colr system, and similar filters were availble also for the Summar 5cm f2

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One of my college instructors was doing "color separations" with three filtered exposures onto 4x5 B&W film when I was in school. Reassembled the images into color using the dye transfer process.

 

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Wasn't new even then - physicist James Clerk Maxwell was the first to do it (1861), in demonstrating that the eye really only needs to see the three primary colors in order to see all colors as mixtures of those three.

 

First Color Photograph

 

BTW - Ian and Steve - I like what you achieved. Both soft and saturated colors. It is a great way to introduce "serendipity" into a mechanical imaging process.

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It was an Agfacolor system that used a special film with micro/lenticular surface made for slide projection... with the projector that used a similar filter in front of its lens... long to explain... one can find the short history of it on the Net (it was soon killed by the Kodachrome system) , in German, for instance Linsenrasterverfahren – Wikipedia ; the above Hektor 7,3cm was made for this odd colr system, and similar filters were availble also for the Summar 5cm f2

 

Thanks, clearly not a system for current use.

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