AMAZING color shots from 1905!

[Baldy]

Man, where have I been!? :huh If you're like me and didn't know there was a fabulous photographer in Russia who shot in COLOR from 1905-1916...taking beautiful plates of the Russian Empire, you're in for an incredible treat.

I'm so unused to seeing shots like this in color -- it's as if the world was sepia-toned to me back then:

http://www.gridenko.com/pg/images/00426.jpg

http://www.gridenko.com/pg/images/01783.jpg

http://www.gridenko.com/pg/images/00341.jpg

They were shot in color, not colorized. The scans are typically 9-10 megapixels.

See more, read more (and buy prints) at http://www.gridenko.com/pg/index.htm (I have nothing to do with them, I'm just an avid admirer).

Baldy

[John Macdonald]

Those are great.
It's soooo neat to see that era in color, it's really cool to see it in original photographic color.
wow.

[John Macdonald]

Any idea of what equipment they were using?
I'd like to see the camera and especially would like to see the lens.
Neat chromatic abberations, I wonder if any of that is from the scanning process or if it's all from the vintage process.

[Baldy]

Any idea of what equipment they were using?
Here's the Library of Congress site with more info (speculation) on the camera:

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

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/3-cameras.jpg

[pathfinder]

Here's the Library of Congress site with more info (speculation) on the camera:

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

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/3-cameras.jpg
Fantastic find Baldy - these are just lovely pictures and a great demonstration of the use of three black and white images to capture color images. Thanks

Pathfinder

[cmr164]

I did not know the technique went back so far. My Dad was doing colour from B/W images in the 50's and I remember him talking about the technique that he used (but did not invent). I am hazy on the details but it only used 2 images. I think one with a red filter and the other with no filter. I had a hard time at the time understanding how it could work with only 2 (vs 3) but I do remember that the projection used a different colour filter set so that combination of both subtracting and adding gave the permutations.

[wxwax]

Awesome. :clap I too have trouble thinking of past times in color, although I have made a conscious effort to do so at times. I'm amazed at how fast the camera had to be to catch the people without any blur, I thought they were much slower then.

Great post!

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87-8086.jpg

[fish]

wow