Stumbled over this, don't recall seeing colour photos this old with this good quality before.
Photos from Russia 100 years ago.

Sergei Mihailovitš Prokudin-Gorski ( Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский )
took these photos between 1909 and 1912.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

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@tomazkid


Cool, amazing quality !!!

That's great, that photos are simply awesome even as historic pourpose, a very instructive piece of European history !

Would be nice to have similar quality photos relating to the immediately following period, such the first 1917's bourgeois revolution, the first Kerensky's governament and then the October's revolution, the first WW etc

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@tomazkid

what the hell????

black and white photos from the last 100 years do look amazing after some corrections etc but those color photos looks almost too damn good.

has these been touched up?


Hell, my grandparents have lots of pictures from WW1 and WW2 and they look crap and thats in black and white but they had their own camera which was cheap i guess?

Newspapers and libraries have some amazing black and white pictures from the last 100 years so i guess they had better cameras than "normal" people and it it seems it was in the late 50's that "colour" became more normal.

Always baffled me how the VCR (1927?) was developed and created before the TV sets so i am not that shocked to see color photos at quality thats 100 years old.

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@tomazkid

I'm not sure why but I get a Déjà vu-feeling I've seen this images associated with Amiga-forum before ? =)

Very nice quality though!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography

Apparently the Russians did colour early on... and those are the photo's we're looking at.

According to wikipedia colour has been around since 1840!!!

@Toaks

People don't realise that colour photography has been around so long. From what little I know, though, you needed pretty good equipment, a wodge of money, some considerable talent, and a lot of patience!

You can see they're not retouched though by looking at picture 21... quite often you can see the colour distorts toward the edge of the plate, and number 21 shows this quite well.

@Spirantho

yeah i noticed that on nr 27 too , almost looked like a early 3d picture :p (lower left corner especially).

impressive stuff!.

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Quote:

Toaks wrote: @Spirantho yeah i noticed that on nr 27 too , almost looked like a early 3d picture :p (lower left corner especially). impressive stuff!.

Heh - I don't think they were quite that advanced. :)

@Toaks

well, considering they were taken with 3 color filters and exposing normal B&W film it's only natural that anything that stays still will look superb while anything moving will look complete crap (blurry water, red and blue kids not sitting in same position etc). Color film just isn't very good compared to B&W, but taking a single picture sure beats having to combine three individual pictures to one, taken from either a different angle or a different time.

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Have a look here too
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@Spirantho

I don`t really see why not, all the necessary physics was in place by then - imagine if such a thing was unearthed!

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@tomazkid

Superb photos, really hard to believe they are over 100 years old - most of what you see from that period is in B&W quite a revelation!

I guess history is littered with technology which was too far ahead of its time and 'shunned' by the significant masses or received very little in the way of praising in the subsequent years that followed... rings a bell doesn't it?

Much like the Amiga itself and to a lesser extent the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyboard also created by the pioneers of the Amiga which eventually became the Wii Fit.

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@tomazkid

They are amazing. What is even more amazing is Russia still look the same... =P

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@itix

Lol.. I can't help but thinking that too about Russia... or even Serbia... but wait.. *djrikki sees vox logging in* ... don't Serbs wear rastafarians and afros?

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And I thought we were being pretty clever when we did the same trick with the digiview gold digitiser on an A500, using a black and white video camera and a motor that turned a red, green or blue filter in front of the camera and took 3 photos and them merged them together later to make a colour photo.

Seems it was rather an old trick even then

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@Slick

Colour photos are old thing but for long time they were clumsy and expensive. B&W have got other advantages too, in fact in a machine vision industry b&w cameras are the norm.

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Those photos are excellent! I wonder what view camera was used.

Found some more photos from him:



http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Prokudin-Gorskii

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@tomazkid

They seems colored photos, are really authentic?