On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Fabio Fiorellato <flowerside@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dunno if someone on the list already pointed to this, but at
>
> [ http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ ]
>
> there's a wonderful online exhibition of some colour pictures dating back to
> 1900's.
>
> They were all taken by mr. Prokudin-Gorskii during his trips at the heart of
> mother Russia, with a rather ingenious trick (remember that color films
> weren't that common 100+ years ago, just like today! :) which is similar to
> what our eyes (as well as Sigma's Foveon sensors) do or are supposed to.
Thanks. Well worth a look. The color looks very nice to me.
Joel W.
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