Re: Two-Color Kodachrome

Luis Nadeau (nadeaul@nbnet.nb.ca)
Mon, 18 May 1998 00:12:20 -0300

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At 10:08 PM -0400 98/05/17, Mike Coslo wrote:
>Luis Nadeau wrote:
>
>> Actually, Kodachrome was originally the name for a two-color process
>> invented in 1913.
>
> Luis, did any examples of the process ever make it to the public?

It was introduced commercially at the San Francisco exhibition of 1915, and
used until 1925, mostly for portraiture. The process was also adapted to
motion pictures in 1916.

The Kodachrome that we know today (three-color substractive transparency)
was introduced in 1935.

Luis Nadeau
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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