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Why would photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour be surprising? Resolution has never been a problem for early color photos, the actua
by PeterisP 4y ago
Why would photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour be surprising?
Resolution has never been a problem for early color photos, the actual coloring was, and the expense/difficulty of the process.
This - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/File:Jewish_Children_with_their_Teacher_in_Samarkand.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/File:L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... - come from 1910s.
And in 1935-1936 effectively modern color film was mass-released, so starting from late 30s nothing should be surprising.
- wizofaus 4y agoPerhaps, but this particular one (looked like some dignitary inspecting an army, assuming an Asian country but couldn't say which) was especially crisp with high colour saturation that didn't match that of other photos from that period, indeed I assumed it was from the 70s or 80s.
- wizofaus 4y agohttps://codepen.io/wizofaus/full/rNrPYZX https://codepen.io/wizofaus/full/rNrPYZX is another photo I would never have guessed the year of from the quality of the image. Even if the outfits/equipment are obviously from a particular period, I'd think it was a reenactment or a scene from a movie...