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    Russian Empire colour photos

    It turned out that russian photographer Prokudin-Gorskiy invented a method of making colour photos and made them A LOT in 1907-1915. But actually it were tripple negatives, which eventually came to the library of Congress, and only recently they were made real pictures again.
    The link is
    http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
    There are some examples of it.
    There is also entire collection link, where you may download b/w triple positives. I downloaded one of them and made the cool colour photo myself in an image editor (although it was jpg-file and not bif tiff).

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    That's interesting. I wonder why he wasn't credited for invention of color photograph?
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    Probably the same reason Popov and Tesla aren't given much credit but Marconi and Edison are: good scientists, but poor businessmen.

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