Well, your post said "looks like the technique that russian
guy developed..."
Course I was already very familiar with Gorskii and had
high appreciation of his work! But in fact James Clerk
Maxwell developed tricolor photography based on Thomas
Young's [very] early theories. Cheers...
Pudentame wrote:
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> Tom Phillips wrote:
> >
> > Pudentame wrote:
> >> john wrote:
> >>> Pudentame wrote:
> >>>> Christophe wrote:
> >>>>> Pudentame a écrit :
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> This looks like the technique that Russian guy developed for
taking 3
> >>>>>> images sequentially using R,G,B (or was it CMY) filters.
>
> > In any case I was required in college to produce a
> > tricolor separation image using three b&w separation
> > exposures. The color is unmatched IMO.
> >
> > However, tricolor photography was first developed by
> > James Clerk Maxwell in 1861, not Tauleigne or Gorskii,
> > based on a early 1800s theory by Thomas Young (who
> > also produce the first ever nonextant photograph in
> > 1802)as well as Herman Helmholtz, that all colors could
> > be reproduced using additive primary RGB or complimentary
> > subtractive colors (Yellow, Magenta, Cyan.)
> >
> > In 1861, Maxwell produced the first ever color separation
> > color image using three projected lantern slides called
> > Tartan Ribbon (a color separation image of a ribbon.)
>
> Perhaps I wasn't clear. I make no claim the Russian guy invented color
> photography, only that the images referred to in the original post
> reminded me of the images he produced.


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