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I had no idea there were original colour photos from the war. You often see images from this period re-coloured using modern image editing software or AI, but t

by mon_ 5y ago

I had no idea there were original colour photos from the war. You often see images from this period re-coloured using modern image editing software or AI, but they never look convincing to me. These are fascinating.

NAG3LT 5y ago
For another deep rabbit hole of true old colour photography, check Prokudin-Gorsky's photos of Russian Empire before WW1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#Gallery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#Gallery He took 3 photos with different colour filters in succession and captured them on large glass plates. Naive alignment possible before digital technology limited the quality of results, but as original separate negatives survived - it was possible to scan them at high quality and properly align digitally. So now we can see those photos in true colour and high quality. As one of examples a very vivid photo of Emir of Bukhara taken in 1911: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Prokudin-Gorskii-19.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Prokudin...
- nine_k 5y ago
  s/before WW2/before WW1/. (Technically correct, though.)
  - NAG3LT 5y ago
    Oops, thoughts went one way, finger the other. Fixed. Thanks for noticing.
- vwcx 5y ago
  potato starch emulsion!
tagoregrtst 5y ago
Color photography has been around for a long time, but wasn't practical until after the war. But, consider all the color films from before the war. There must have been a color method for there to be a movie!