Colour pictures of Russia circa 1907

Some Russian photography worked out that if he put coloured filters in front of his camera and took three photographs of the same scene, he could reconstruct a coloured image using only B&W film. The results are here and are very, very cool indeed.

5 Responses to “Colour pictures of Russia circa 1907”

  1. SharkyUK says:

    Wow – they are impressive and quite, well, surreal…

  2. Richard McIntosh says:
  3. Richard McIntosh says:

    they are seriously cool. You sort of think that things in the past looked more differant. Strange hey. That guy was a genius. wonder why no one else though of doing that?

  4. Lori says:

    Great stuff. That’s rather clever.

    Btw, these comment appear to be in a rather large fint all of a sudden.

  5. Chris says:

    Whoops. That should be fixed now.