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Color Transition
Color Photography – The Transition
Color is
the essence to many things from photographs to a blooming
flower to a deep blue ocean. The ability to take color photo
prints has changed the world of photography in more ways
than one but then it never used to be so colorful back in
the early 19th century.
In the
initial days, film rolls and photography were in black &
white format, but the search for color film rolls continued
throughout the 19th century. There were
experiments conducted but the colors in the photographs
could not be retained and they faded away fast. According to
history, the first color photo was taken by James Clerk
Maxwell, a physicist in 1861. One of the earliest methods of
producing a color photograph was painstaking and a total of
3 cameras had to be used. Prokudin-Gorskii, in 1915, was the
first one to use this process to take color photographs. He
used a color filter and placed it in front of the lens for
each of the three cameras. This way he was able to get three
basic channels also famous as the RGB or Red, Green, and
Blue. Prokudin-Gorskii followed this by another technique in
which he utilized three-color plates, and used them in
succession.
As more
experiments continued, H. W. Vogel was able to produce
emulsions in the early 20th century that could
generate the required sensitivity to red and green light.
Later on, the Lumière brothers invented the very first color
film called Autochrome. The Autochrome was launched in the
market in 1907. This process involved the use of a screen
plate filter, which dyed dots made from potato starch. The
Autochrome was the only available color film until Agfa, the
German company, introduced a color film in 1932 called the
Agfacolor. Following its example, Kodak introduced an
integrated tri-pack color film in 1935 and it was called the
Kodachrome. Kodachrome was based on three color emulsions.
Following Kodachrome, Agfa in 1936, came out with Agfacolor
Neue. Agfacolor Neue had color couplers that were integrated
with emulsion layers and this simplified film processing and
created an impact in the photography industry. All color
films except for Kodak, are based on the Agfacolor Neue
technology.
Creativity begets creativity! It can be proved from the fact
that the Kodachrome color films were invented by Leopold
Mannes and Leopold Godowsky, Jr., two very accomplished
musicians. Leopold Godowsky, Jr. was the son of one of the
greatest pianists of his time, Leopold Godowsky.
Color
photography actually revolutionized an era and brought out
the impact of colors through vivid and detailed images
including the ones from the World War II and the destruction
caused by natural disasters. The color photographs captured
emotions and the surroundings in such a way that they were
being used more and more in newspapers, magazines and even
for book covers.
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