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http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/2363/
I was surprised to learn that color film existed in 1940...
I was surprised to learn that color film existed in 1940...
Not a big fan of the Wizard of Oz? 
Wow. Same here! I remember when I finally saw the movie in its entirety and then had the biggest AHA! moment of my life
On a side and completely unrelated note, I just noticed with the new upgrade our post count actually marks our posts with the corresponding number. Before the total number of posts would accompany each post, but now each post has its own number in your post count.
No I do not know why I or how I noticed this but it would have made +1 threads a lot different. Where's Slug when you need him, a true post whore would appreciate this!
On a side and completely unrelated note, I just noticed with the new upgrade our post count actually marks our posts with the corresponding number. Before the total number of posts would accompany each post, but now each post has its own number in your post count.
No I do not know why I or how I noticed this but it would have made +1 threads a lot different. Where's Slug when you need him, a true post whore would appreciate this!
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Wow..first permanent color photograph taken in 1861! I would not have guessed that at all. The first was very imperfect, but things progressed rapidly. On the Wikipedia site you can see the first photo and then by the first part of the 20th centurym a Russian photographer took some pretty good pre-revolutionary pictures. You can see a few at the website, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_motion_picture_film
Fascinating bits of history. Well to me anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_motion_picture_film
Fascinating bits of history. Well to me anyway.
Holy crap had I not come to this thread I would have forgotten about my jury duty next week I actually was selected as part of a jury panel a year and a half ago...shouldn't I be done for life!
I actually was selected as part of a jury panel a year and a half ago...shouldn't I be done for life!
I'll risk boring everyone. The Russian photographer mentioned in my previous post was Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky. You can see some of his pretty amazing photos at the bottom of this page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky
They were cleaned up in the digitizing process from the prints he was likely able to produce.
It was only with the advent of digital image processing that multiple images could be satisfactorily combined into one.[21] The Library of Congress undertook a project in 2000 to make digital scans of all the photographic material received from Prokudin-Gorsky's heirs and contracted with the photographer Walter Frankhauser to combine the monochrome negatives into colour images.[22] He created 122 color renderings using a method he called digichromatography and commented that each image took him around six to seven hours to align, clean and colour-correct.[23] In 2001, the Library of Congress produced an exhibition from these,
They were cleaned up in the digitizing process from the prints he was likely able to produce.
It was only with the advent of digital image processing that multiple images could be satisfactorily combined into one.[21] The Library of Congress undertook a project in 2000 to make digital scans of all the photographic material received from Prokudin-Gorsky's heirs and contracted with the photographer Walter Frankhauser to combine the monochrome negatives into colour images.[22] He created 122 color renderings using a method he called digichromatography and commented that each image took him around six to seven hours to align, clean and colour-correct.[23] In 2001, the Library of Congress produced an exhibition from these,
