This is old news but kicks @$$, so here it goes again

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Color photography in 1905! Impossible? No!

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

How they did it:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html

[ET Awful]

1. That is soooooo cool ;)

I didn't see it first time around, and being a photography nut, I'm very impressed.

Thanks for posting!

[TreasonousBastard]

2. I can't begin to...

express my admiration for those pioneers who came up with useful stuff.

We do it now, of course, but it seems like it's always a big deal with millons in venture capital involved. Two guys in a garage dreamed up the Apple, and after that it's been downhill for small inventors.

Anyway, the principles of color separation were pretty well known in the early 20th century, but this guy did an extraordinary job designing the equipment and lugging all those plates around Russia on railroad and oxcart.

Few of us can imagine the amount of work involved in that sort of adventure.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. You bet!

Variations on the three-color process were being experimented with shortly after it was possible to take photographs.

The same thing was demonstrated for TV in 1928 by a fellow named John Logie Baird. He used a Nipkow spinning disk with red, green, and blue colored filters.

In the 1950s, "non-compatible color" was tried, using a spinning color disk in front of a standard cathode-ray TV tube. It worked pretty well.

Key on these search terms: John Logie Baird Paul Pavel Nipkow TV non-compatible color Peter Goldmark CBS

--bkl

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. More ...

hundreds more, from the same photographer: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dellaert/aligned/

(warning: low-bandwidth people will want to skip. 500 thumbnails per page.)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Wow! Thanks for the link! (nt)