Railfan Technology > Color Russian Railroad photo 1915

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Early Russian Railroad Photo in color 1915 (actual color not colorized)

And here is the story:

http://mashable.com/2014/09/30/russian-revolution-in-color/

excerpt:
The color process Prokudin-Gorsky worked with required three separate black-and-white exposures, each one taken through either a red, green or blue filter. When the filtered exposures were combined, the result was the full chromatic spectrum in a photograph.

Prokudin-Gorsky left Russia in 1918 after the Communist Revolution and ultimately came to settle with his family in Paris. Approximately half of his own negatives were confiscated by the Russian authorities on his departure

Bob Jordan

Heh! I've seen this before. It was posted over at abpr (alt.binary.pictures.rail) a number of years ago... Sorry, but I don't seem to have these anymore.

John.

... and then I dug a bit further... Here's one... Looks Yank-built. Eight were posted on abpr. Want more?

John.

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If that's a hundred years old (OK, 99) it's really amazing. While the color might not be 100% right, it's sure not bad. It's better than some of the B&W from that era.

Thanks for sharing that.

John