Mike Russell

The color images are made from three separately filtered and exposed plates.
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Mike Russell
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www.geigy.2y.net

Mark Dunn wrote:
    > I assume they're Autochromes. Stunning. Almost unbelievable.
    > Arty Phacting <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    >> Dobri Igor
    >> Arts
    >> "Igor Sklar" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >> news:[email protected]...
    >>> Hello,
    >>> I found some more links for your pleasure:
    >>> A bridge in the Urals (1910):
    >>> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/08/03/571627.jpg
    >>> Breakfast in the field (1909):
    >>> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/04/14/460720.jpg
    >>> A peasant woman at work (1910):
    >>> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/05/18/493555.jpg
    >>> Hermitage in the wood (1912):
    >>> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/03/29/446320.jpg
    >>> Seashore of Georgia (1912):
    >>> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/04/12/458576.jpg
    >>> An Armenian woman (1912):
    >>> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/04/12/458611.jpg
    >>> People of Samarkand (1909):
    >>> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/04/16/462612.jpg
    >>> Samarkand beggars (1909):
    >>> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/04/15/461646.jpg
    >>> A lynx in the Cherdyn museum (1910):
    >>> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/03/26/444160.jpg
    >>> Still life with a yellow rose (1914):
    >>> http://img.photosight.ru/2004/06/22/530065.jpg
    >>> The complete series are available at
    >>> http://www.prokudin-gorsky.ru/database.php3?first=0
    >>> regards
    >>> "Arty Phacting" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >> news:<[email protected]>...
    >>>> Thank you for these Igor
    >>>> What a wonderul series of images
    >>>> At first I could not believe it
    >>>> With much gratitude
    >>>> Arts

Jjs

"Mike Russell" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > The color images are made from three separately filtered and exposed
plates.

Indeed, good old RGB. Like the 3-shot digital backs of today. Funny how
we are starting all over.

Tp

"jjs" <[email protected]> wrote:
    >Indeed, good old RGB. Like the 3-shot digital backs of today. Funny how
    >we are starting all over.


In fact, that is really no surprise, as the Laws of Physics have
remained unchanged.

;-)

Jjs

"TP" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > "jjs" <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >
    > >Indeed, good old RGB. Like the 3-shot digital backs of today. Funny
how
    > >we are starting all over.

    > In fact, that is really no surprise, as the Laws of Physics have
    > remained unchanged.

So you say! Time goes by faster and gravity pulls stronger now than it did
60 years ago... but I guess you had to be there. (olde pharte jokes are
pathetic, ain't they?)

Actually, it's a comment on the present state of some digital capture
approaches, specifically the 3-pass back. Somehow I find it hard to believe
people find merit in the things.

Back to PS!

Jpc

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:40:56 GMT, "Bob" <[email protected]> wrote:

    >"Steve Hix" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    >> In article <[email protected] >,
    >> [email protected] (Igor Sklar) wrote:
    >> [snip]
    >> > All these color photos were taken by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
    >> > (1863-1944). See http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ for details.
    >> Great pictures! What process was he using, btw?
    >you should check out the link .. it is very interesting...
    >he used glass plates, taking 3 exposures for each picture, and using a red,
    >then blue, then green filter for each shot, so he got a photo of each
    >channel, and then combined the images back out using a device called a
    >"magic lantern" that had a red, blue and green light each focused through
    >the image, converging at the same spot on a screen, to create a full color
    >slide show back in 1910 or whatever...amazing!
    >Bob

For the record, the technique is almost a 150 years old. The first
man to do this James Clark Maxwell--of Maxwell's equations fame. He
projected a color image of a ribbon in 1861 before a large audience at
the Royal Institute in London.

The idea lanquished until the beginning of the 20th century, mainly
because the emulsions used in the 19th century were insensitive to
green and almost totally insensitive to red.

jpc

Richardsfault

Is that not in principle similar to Kodachrome?
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On 30 Jul 2004 10:15:15 -0700, [email protected] (Igor Sklar)
wrote:

[snip]
    >All these color photos were taken by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
    >(1863-1944). See http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ for details.

Thanks for the link. Those are truly wonderful photographs...it
brought the past a little bit closer to us.

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Mark Weaver

"Kulvinder Singh Matharu" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > On 30 Jul 2004 10:15:15 -0700, [email protected] (Igor Sklar)
    > wrote:
    > [snip]
    > >All these color photos were taken by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
    > >(1863-1944). See http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ for details.
    > Thanks for the link. Those are truly wonderful photographs...it
    > brought the past a little bit closer to us.

Yes--very cool. The image quality is amazing for 100 year old images.
Thanks.

Mark