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Color photography is photography that uses media capable of capturing and reproducing colors. By contrast, black-and-white or gray- monochrome photography records only a single channel of luminance (brightness) and uses media capable only of showing shades of gray. In color photography, electronic sensors or light-sensitive chemicals record ...
Wire-Photos are in wide use in Europe by 1910, and transmitted to other continents by 1922. 1907 – The Autochrome plate is introduced. It becomes the first commercially successful color photography product. 1908 – Kinemacolor, a two-color process known as the first commercial "natural color" system for movies, is introduced.
Autochrome Lumière. A Nieuport aircraft photographed in 1917 using the Autochrome process. The Autochrome Lumière was an early color photography process patented in 1903 [1] by the Lumière brothers in France and first marketed in 1907. [2] Autochrome was an additive color [3] "mosaic screen plate" process.
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection, the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]
Hand-colouring is also known as hand painting or overpainting. Typically, watercolours, oils, crayons or pastels, and other paints or dyes are applied to the image surface using brushes, fingers, cotton swabs or airbrushes. Hand-coloured photographs were most popular in the mid- to late-19th century before the invention of colour photography ...
Early techniques for taking colour photographs. Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ prɐˈkudʲɪn ˈɡorskʲɪj] ⓘ; August 30 [ O.S. August 18] 1863 – September 27, 1944) was a Russian chemist and photographer.
Kinemacolor. A frame from George Albert Smith's early colour film ''Two Clowns'' (c. 1907) Kinemacolor was the first successful colour motion picture process. Used commercially from 1909 to 1915, it was invented by George Albert Smith in 1906. [1][2] It was a two-colour additive colour process, photographing a black-and-white film behind ...
Discontinued. 2002 (ISO 25) 2005 (ISO 40 inch 8mm) 2007 (ISO 200) 2009 (ISO 64) December 30, 2010 (processing) Kodachrome is the brand name for a color reversal film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935. [2] It was one of the first successful color materials and was used for both cinematography and still photography.