World War I - Color Photos

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:06 pm

http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/

Moth · Post by **Moth** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:25 pm

They had color cameras in WWI?

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:28 pm

Technology was apparently invented in 1907. So yes, they did..

Additional info on that link regarding the history.

STUKA · Post by **STUKA** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:50 pm

wow - very cool

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:51 pm

Interesting! While I at first had my doubts over the veracity of color photos this early (afterall, it was also a common practice in this period to paint the negatives or plates to produce a photograph "in color") I researched the development of color photography and found that it had been experimented with since the 1860s, with the first practical color film Autochrome reaching the market in 1907. This is presumably what the French photographers used with the WWI photos. Color photography was a complicated to produce and consequently was rare until the 1940s. That makes these WWI photos a real treasure!

immeww2 · Post by **immeww2** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:35 am

Was surprised too to see color photos of WW1. Interesting.

KAMIKAZE · Post by **KAMIKAZE** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:22 pm

I really like the shots of the trenches.

Mark

tkjaer21 · Post by **tkjaer21** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:40 pm

That is pretty neat of how they are in color. 100 hundred years ago.

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:33 pm

I never even heard of color WW1 pics.

GREAT FIND