Comments on: Color Photos From the World War I Era http://www.damninteresting.com/color-photos-from-the-world-war-i-era A collection of Damn Interesting things Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:31:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: ManMan http://www.damninteresting.com/color-photos-from-the-world-war-i-era#comment-22770 ManMan Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:09:45 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=245#comment-22770 Color photos of Wells, Venice and Plitvice Lakes in Croatia taken more then 100 years ago and now. http://technogreatideas.blogspot.com/2008/09/then-and-now-color-photos-taken-more.html Color photos of Wells, Venice and Plitvice Lakes in Croatia taken more then 100 years ago and now.
http://technogreatideas.blogspot.com/2008/09/then-and-now-color-photos-taken-more.html

]]> By: BlackFoxOne http://www.damninteresting.com/color-photos-from-the-world-war-i-era#comment-22661 BlackFoxOne Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:18:34 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=245#comment-22661 OMG That must have been a wonderful time to be aroudn in. I would have loved to have grown up in that era. Josh http://www.privacy.cz.tc OMG That must have been a wonderful time to be aroudn in. I would have loved to have grown up in that era.

Josh
http://www.privacy.cz.tc

]]> By: tarteauxpommes http://www.damninteresting.com/color-photos-from-the-world-war-i-era#comment-15841 tarteauxpommes Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:11:15 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=245#comment-15841 <p>I want that picture in my house! :-)</p> I want that picture in my house! :-)

]]> By: Tink http://www.damninteresting.com/color-photos-from-the-world-war-i-era#comment-15737 Tink Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:42:16 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=245#comment-15737 <p><span class='quote'>bonjour641 said: "Does anyone else think the photo of the man in the blue robe is adorable? My sister's reaction was "Oh, how cute!" I loved it."</span></p><p> LOL, yeah, he reminds me of Mr. French,(Sabastion Cabot?)</p> bonjour641 said: “Does anyone else think the photo of the man in the blue robe is adorable? My sister’s reaction was “Oh, how cute!” I loved it.”

LOL, yeah, he reminds me of Mr. French,(Sabastion Cabot?)

]]> By: bonjour641 http://www.damninteresting.com/color-photos-from-the-world-war-i-era#comment-15733 bonjour641 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:55:31 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=245#comment-15733 <p>Does anyone else think the photo of the man in the blue robe is adorable? My sister's reaction was "Oh, how cute!" I loved it.</p> Does anyone else think the photo of the man in the blue robe is adorable? My sister’s reaction was “Oh, how cute!” I loved it.

]]> By: Kafka http://www.damninteresting.com/color-photos-from-the-world-war-i-era#comment-8236 Kafka Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:43:37 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=245#comment-8236 <p>The Colour is spot on, the photos look almost as good as modern photos. I can't see why this wasn't adapted for use in other areas. Maybe because it was too expensive? You did have to take 3 photos. </p><p>It is unfortunate that not more pictures were taken.</p> The Colour is spot on, the photos look almost as good as modern photos. I can’t see why this wasn’t adapted for use in other areas. Maybe because it was too expensive? You did have to take 3 photos.

It is unfortunate that not more pictures were taken.

]]> By: benzeneforeveryone http://www.damninteresting.com/color-photos-from-the-world-war-i-era#comment-8056 benzeneforeveryone Sun, 20 Aug 2006 06:43:07 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=245#comment-8056 <p><span class='quote'>schuylercat said: "I made a living for a while as a photographer, shooting open-wheeled race cars. Didn’t last long – the money sucked and evidently I wasn’t as good as I thought I was.</span></p><p><span class='quote'> I shot a gazillion rolls of E6 – based on the Agfa process, and still have my Nikon Coolscan film scanner and a gazillion dollars worth of Canon bodies, lenses, accessories and stuff (that’s worth 1/10th what it was worth two years ago). I have boxes of rolled-up raw, processed chrome still rolled up, un-mounted. I’m looking at these shots of Russia, taken with the inventive three-plate process…and I’m stunned. The resolution is not too surprising, given the shots were all taken with a full-frame view camera. The color, though, is just damned stunning, and the depth of the shots is remarkable (maybe that’s just what you get when you layer 3 plates, one atop the other). That shot of the Nilova Monastery is just freaking brilliant. The fact these are almost a hundred years old is what gets me – It seems almost anyone with a good eye, a 8 meg Nikon or Canon, a decent lens, and a copy of Photoshop could recreate the look and feel of these things, but Prokudin-Gorskii had his photography freak on big way back. Damned interesting."</span></p><p> While looking at Gorskii's photos, it seemed that I was peering out of my Orient Express cabin window; the color of the images is perfect--they do not appear hyper-real, nor hypo-real. While gazing at them/into them, it became possible that I might just step through my monitor directly into the past, gliding back one hundred years as quickly as an errant screen flicker. Question to schuylercat: I am interested to know what type of Canon photographic equipment you have. It seems from your posting that you are no longer are in any great hurry to continue using your apparent surplus of lenses, bodies, etc. I have a Canon EOS3, and would be interested in acquiring certain lenses/filters for it at less than the cost of new. I would be glad to take you up on your offer of ten percent of what they were originally worth that you stated. If you are up for an exchange of information, please reply to this comment, and I will then dole out my e-mail address. Thank you.</p> schuylercat said: “I made a living for a while as a photographer, shooting open-wheeled race cars. Didn’t last long – the money sucked and evidently I wasn’t as good as I thought I was.


I shot a gazillion rolls of E6 – based on the Agfa process, and still have my Nikon Coolscan film scanner and a gazillion dollars worth of Canon bodies, lenses, accessories and stuff (that’s worth 1/10th what it was worth two years ago). I have boxes of rolled-up raw, processed chrome still rolled up, un-mounted.

I’m looking at these shots of Russia, taken with the inventive three-plate process…and I’m stunned. The resolution is not too surprising, given the shots were all taken with a full-frame view camera. The color, though, is just damned stunning, and the depth of the shots is remarkable (maybe that’s just what you get when you layer 3 plates, one atop the other). That shot of the Nilova Monastery is just freaking brilliant.

The fact these are almost a hundred years old is what gets me – It seems almost anyone with a good eye, a 8 meg Nikon or Canon, a decent lens, and a copy of Photoshop could recreate the look and feel of these things, but Prokudin-Gorskii had his photography freak on big way back.

Damned interesting.”

While looking at Gorskii’s photos, it seemed that I was peering out of my Orient Express cabin window; the color of the images is perfect–they do not appear hyper-real, nor hypo-real. While gazing at them/into them, it became possible that I might just step through my monitor directly into the past, gliding back one hundred years as quickly as an errant screen flicker.

Question to schuylercat: I am interested to know what type of Canon photographic equipment you have. It seems from your posting that you are no longer are in any great hurry to continue using your apparent surplus of lenses, bodies, etc. I have a Canon EOS3, and would be interested in acquiring certain lenses/filters for it at less than the cost of new. I would be glad to take you up on your offer of ten percent of what they were originally worth that you stated. If you are up for an exchange of information, please reply to this comment, and I will then dole out my e-mail address. Thank you.

]]> By: wxrodrig http://www.damninteresting.com/color-photos-from-the-world-war-i-era#comment-7944 wxrodrig Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:41:01 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=245#comment-7944 <p>Yes, Now This Is Damn Interesting. Not like that Zephyr car article !</p> Yes, Now This Is Damn Interesting. Not like that Zephyr car article !

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