On 9/3/09, Scott Loveless <sdlovel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/3/09, Graydon <o...@uniserve.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 08:54:58PM -0400, Desjardins, Steve scripsit: > > > > > I didn't realize they could do color that well back then. > > > > > > Arguably, they couldn't; it was a three-sequential-negatives process, > > and really tough to put back together chemically to get a colour image. > > > > If I'm following the various articles correctly, many of the images now > > available were not available at the time; digital recombination is much > > easier and the Library of Congress had all the possible ones done. > > > I thought it was 3 monochrome positives projected through 3 separate > filters. Red, green and blue, or something like that. And that > getting the projectors set up properly was the hard part. Or maybe > I'm smoking crack again.
I'm paying attention now. 3 separate photos taken with different filters. Says so right there on that site Brendan linked us to. -- Scott Loveless Cigarette-free since December 14th, 2008 http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
