Talk:Color photography

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Poor History Section

I am very dissapointed to see that a lot of interesting historical information was removed while this was Wikipedia's Picture Of the Day. See the diff between March 16 and 23 (about 10 edits) Link [1] .... Also, as an example of really good and intersting information about history of color photography, please see [2] (Also, they have very good restorations of Proudskin's 100 year old color photographs as well, see [3]) .... We sorely need a GOOD history section for this article... Mdrejhon 02:15, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why is Technicolor not mentioned inthe timeline. It is certainly a color process.66.142.184.38 22:55, 16 August 2007 (UTC)robcat2075[reply]

Please note this article is about Color STILL film. For motion picture film (Technicolor) see Color film (motion picture) or Technicolor. All the best, LACameraman 18:44, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article work / external links

This article needs a lot of work (or a lot of external links). I've added a bit of detail on screen-plate methods. Needs more on tri-camera and separation negative methods and on early colour print. Good descriptions of the (complications of) Kodachrome process and colour print film (C-41) are also needed somewhere. 80.177.213.144

The references by Sipley and Coote contain an enormous amount of technical information about pre-Kodachrome color. I don't have time to summarize today, but if someone else wants to pursue this, I highly recommend those two sources (Coote's book was published in the UK, but I found it in a bookstore in Wisconsin-- the manager gave me a discount because it had sat unsold for so long!) -Rbean 20:04, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

conflicting dates / claims

"The first permanent color photo was taken in 1861 by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell."

when you follow the link for James Clerk Maxwell it describes the method for taking his photograph as being identical to the description "Other systems of color photography included that invented by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, which involved three separate monochrome exposures ('separation negatives') of a still scene through red, green, and blue filters"

the method outlined as used by Prokudin-Gorskii couldnt have been invented by him as he wasn born til 1863.

Inconsistant with other articles and webpages

The articles Louis Ducos du Hauron and Timeline of photography technology claims this to be the oldest known color photograph (1872). Google for his name and you'll find more sources claiming him to be the inventor of color photography. Kricke 00:29, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The timeline has been corrected. The photo reffered to as 1872 is actually 1877 (written on the photo itself!) Maxwell was actually first to make a permanent color photo. Fully panchromatic emulsions were not available until around 1900, so all earlier color photography was experimental, not practical. --Janke | Talk 11:51, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Prokudin-Gorskii's method

The original blak-and white negatives for the famous Nilov Monastery photo Image:Prokudin-Gorskii-09-edit2.jpg are linked from the Talk page on Commons [4]. These photos are likely in PD and may, in some future, be used in a standalone article detailing this technique. Pavel Vozenilek 22:05, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Degradation and artistic value

I moved the section formerly titled Inevitable impermanence of color photography controversy. To preserve or not to preserve. into the article Photograph conservation because the section was more about photography conservation in general than color photography in particular. -- mordel (talk) 16:50, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

how does it work?

how do the chemicals in the film work? are there different chemicals for different colours? please explain in the article.--72.39.35.178 (talk) 17:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]