[alt-photo] Re: Tri color photos Russia

[Tomas Sobota]

Actually the process is explained in detail here:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html

Tom

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:28 PM, phritz phantom <phritz-phantom at web.de>wrote:

>  Am 29.08.2010 21:42, schrieb Richard Knoppow:
>
>    I believe the original pictures were intended for projection.
>>
>>  i think there is proof for that in the pictures. in pic 27 the child on
> the far left moved its head during exposure. one can clearly see the red and
> green exposures and the blue one too a little. and only where all three
> colors overlap, the head (with some kind of baby hat on) has the correct
> white color.
> at first this totally baffled me, because i thought in prints it's always
> the additive method of color mixing that is used. but if those pics were
> intended for projection, it makes sense that the subtractive method is used.
> or doesn't it?
>
> please, experts, correct me, if i drew the wrong conclusions here.
>
> phritz
>
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