rondeb Posted September 17, 2008 Share #1 Posted September 17, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi all. A friend of mine sent this link over and I've found it to be a fascinating look at America in the 30's-40's due to the simple fact that Kodachrome was invented. Rarely do you see color photographs of America during this time. enjoy. -Ron A Look Back In History Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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stunsworth Posted September 17, 2008 Share #2 Posted September 17, 2008 Or of Russia even earlier... Ethnic Diversity - The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii PhotographicRecord Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooky Posted September 17, 2008 Share #3 Posted September 17, 2008 Very nice look back.......at how color brings a different feel to those times - kind of like seeing the color films of WWII after years of seeing them in B+W. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marke Posted September 19, 2008 Share #4 Posted September 19, 2008 Hi all. A friend of mine sent this link over and I've found it to be a fascinating look at America in the 30's-40's due to the simple fact that Kodachrome was invented. Rarely do you see color photographs of America during this time. enjoy. -Ron A Look Back In History Ron, that's just incredible. This was a time when my parents grew up, and it's good to remind ourselves how much things have changed and what things we really must keep important. Thanks for posting that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 19, 2008 Share #5 Posted September 19, 2008 We have had a whole series on British TV of The First World War in Colour. Colour film has been around 150 years or so. James Clerk Maxwell Tartan Ribbon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobey bilek Posted September 22, 2008 Share #6 Posted September 22, 2008 Thanks for the Chicago views as I am a Chicago person. When I was active in camera club, the Chicago Historical Society would only accept Kodachrome or fiber base monochrome for its archives. My first Kodachrome was Kodachrome2 in the 1960~s. The pics are still like brand new. The earlier Kodachrome was ASA 10. Nobody complained. Today the digi guys complain at ISO 800 showing a bit of noise. How spoiled! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrid Posted September 22, 2008 Share #7 Posted September 22, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Autochrome is where it's at. ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyoung Posted September 23, 2008 Share #8 Posted September 23, 2008 Thanks for the Chicago views as I am a Chicago person. When I was active in camera club, the Chicago Historical Society would only accept Kodachrome or fiber base monochrome for its archives. My first Kodachrome was Kodachrome2 in the 1960~s. The pics are still like brand new. The earlier Kodachrome was ASA 10. Nobody complained. Today the digi guys complain at ISO 800 showing a bit of noise. How spoiled! Indeed, although when it was 10 asa I used Perutz for a while which was 50 asa. Now most of my stuff is done on Fufi 100 iso, and there are times when I nearly run out of shutter speeds to get as little depth of field as I want, we have good fast lenses for Leica, not grotty slow zooms. Gerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest moonwrack Posted September 25, 2008 Share #9 Posted September 25, 2008 The French Lumiere Brothers invented viable colour photography at the beginning of the 20th Century and had successfully productionised it by 1907. It was in use up to the Thirties and was a uniquely beautiful process. Potato starch grains and soot versus digital; I know which I prefer...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted September 25, 2008 Share #10 Posted September 25, 2008 It was in use up to the Thirties and was a uniquely beautiful process. Indeed it was. A couple of links... Telegraph | Picture Gallery | EDWARDIANS IN COLOUR Amazon.co.uk: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn: Colour Photographs from a Lost Age: David Okuefuna: Books I have the book. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Antony Posted September 26, 2008 Share #11 Posted September 26, 2008 As others have noted colour photography is pretty old, those Russian Prokudin Gorskii photographs made me have a go myself. Here is a Tricrome RGB made from Fuji Neopan 400 The method should you want to try: Photo Utopia: Colour Images from B&W Film I saw the recent BBC series on Albert Kahn and loved the pictures of the first war in colour, for those outside the UK here are some of those: WWI in colour Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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