"Russia in color, a century ago"

mad mike said:
Amazing! I'm still not sure how it's done.
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Put simply, you are aware, I'm sure, that colour images we see (inkjet prints, colour photos, colour TV, etc) are generally composed of three basic primary colours. The Russian photographer took three identical shots through three colour cut-off filters, so he had the information needed to reconstitute the scene. There was an article in Photo Techniques magazine a few years ago describing how the reconstituting was technically difficult because of minor inaccuracies in alignment causing colour fringing. It was only with the advent of computer graphic manipulation that these problems could be adjusted.

In the days when these negs were made, for viewing, I assume that a positive would be made of each neg, and these would be projected simultaneously through the appropriate colour filters on three projectors onto a screen.
 
What a fascinating and beautiful world Russia in 1910 was! Too bad about what was soon to come - WW1, the Revolution, Lenin, Stalin, WW2, German invasion, reconstruction, the fall of Communism, etc. These photographs are truly remarkable, a real window into the past.
 
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