You'd think. Bah, what the hell. They're color pictures from 1909. Not digitally colored, they were done in actual color photography. It blew me away just cuz i've never really seen color pictures from that far back. It has a certain eerieness to it, like ur sticking ur head through a portal (ala Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat). The read is pretty kewl and this is the actual site from the Library of Congress. Sorry if it's boring, but i thought it was really intresting. They'd be just another set of pictures from the pre-WW1 era, but since they're color they're on a different level. And it's intresting how it was done.
yea that is weird. i think i remember seeing or hearing about this on history channel or somewhere.. really rare photos. whoda thunk the 1900's were brown and beige industrialized.
Unfortunately, I don't believe they do date that far back. If you look below, in the description, it says 'digital colour rendering'. They are amazing pictures though. Dan.
Perhaps I should rephrase - they didn't look like that when they were developed back in 1900 or whenever it was. Clear enough?
You guys read the description, right? The guy took black and white pictures 3 times of the same scene using red, green, and blue filters. Then he projected the images using 3 projectors to render the color. It is color photography, just without chromatic chemicals. The pictures on the site were done by computer using the original three negatives for each scene, which is just as good. There's nothing fake about this, it's color photography because the color information was recorded by the photographs and not made up later. Matter of fact, a similar method has been used to take color photographs in low light conditions nowadays.
The key thing here is the three different color filters. It was basically ment to be displayed like slides, with the use of a projector.
We have an exhibit which showed the principle where I used to work. Three acetate sheets, with the three colours plus black. You simply overlayed them and could see a decent picture.
