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Topic: Amazing color photos from 1910 in Russia
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Erika
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posted 08-29-2010 06:00 PM
   
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.htmlWow.
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violet_daisy
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posted 08-29-2010 06:49 PM
Very cool pictures. Thanks for sharing! I didn't realize they had such good quality color photographs back then.
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Standard American!
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posted 08-29-2010 08:16 PM
Call me a skeptic but I dont believe those are from 1910!
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5150fitz
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posted 08-29-2010 08:40 PM
I have very old photo's that aren't even in the same ball park as those. I found the filters an interesting possibility. The clarity had to be enhanced. Glass plates? ------------------
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Draco098
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posted 08-29-2010 08:42 PM
I saw these a few weeks ago and they've been popularly going around the net since then. If you read the text that accompanies them you'll see how they were made. It's amazing to be looking back over 100 years ago, before World War One and Two... Truly amazing. quote:
...photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun.
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Houdinis_Angel
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posted 08-30-2010 02:14 PM
I wondered how that was possible too, until as Danny pointed out the use of the filters. Way ahead of his time then, it's kind of like using burst mode on a camera now, but he had to go through the whole process of using filters. Curiosity makes me wonder if he changed the filters himself or had someone helping him...photography fascinates me  .
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Erika
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posted 08-31-2010 09:33 AM
I do not know enough about cameras to believe 100% what the caption says, but it does sounds plausible. Maybe Danny or someone else familiar with cameras could give us their expert opinion on whether or not this would work. They look real, but there are plenty of things out there that appear real and are fakes.
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