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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 02:21 PM
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100 Year Old color pictures of Russia developed using digital methods
Edited on Thu Sep-03-09 02:39 PM by Swede
Pretty cool.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/214585


Link to how it was done,larger images
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 03:04 PM
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1. Nice!
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 03:22 PM
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2. that's really cool
That's very similar to the way I used to shoot plate setups for 4 color process printing when I worked in a print shops many moons ago. I'd shoot each color using a different filter and screen to make the negatives that were then burned on to plates that went into the printing press.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 03:26 PM
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3. I got a Malware warning from that site.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 03:33 PM
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4. Which one?
Edited on Thu Sep-03-09 03:35 PM by Swede
The first link,or the second. One is Newsweek and the other is the Library of Congress.
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 03:38 PM
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5. Thanks for posting.
These are magnificent.
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hibbing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 03:47 PM
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6. wow
Hi,
Thanks for the link, those are really cool. Loved the old church!

Peace
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 03:53 PM
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7. Amazing feeling seeing these images from a century ago - thanks for posting.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 04:03 PM
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8. WOW
I'm usually no fan of colorization, but a lot of those photos just took my breath away.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 05:05 PM
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10. well, it's not colorization, really...
colorization is basically "painting" color onto a B&W original.

this photographer used filters to break the image into its 3 component parts, captured as monochrome, and then re-combined. I believe this is how some early Hollywood color movies were done -- 3 separate projectors. Or the old-school home theatre systems with the big red, green, and blue filtered lenses you had to calibrate into register.
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 07:40 PM
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13. These are authentic color photographs in every way.
It's a very lovely restoration.
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Schema Thing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 04:28 PM
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9. I remember a set of Russian tri-neg color photos that were re-imaged with traditional
photography 10 years ago or so. The digital does it nicer!
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 05:34 PM
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11. Stunning images.
Thanks for posting this.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 05:49 PM
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12. Very cool!
:bounce:
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 07:49 PM
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14. Love it !! Thanks!
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velvet Donating Member (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 09:06 PM
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15. fascinating - thank you! n/t
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