Pre Revolutionary Russian Colour Photos - Amazing!

[Ste]

Take a look here

http://rtemes.livejournal.com/10062.html

Here's an example - photo taken in 1905!

[bjoer751]

That's one of the restored colour photos taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. The original site is called "The Empire that was called Russia" and is located at http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ - It's well worth a visit!
The camera was actually composed of three cameras, which had glass plate negatives, each camera took a gray photo using a coloured lens (blue, red and green) - and the negatives are used together to create a colour photo.

He took more than 3500 colour negatives, and 122 of them were restored for the Library of Congress exhibition in 2000.

[Kuna]

Wonderful Photographs!

[TexasBoar]

Even on DSL, that took an insanely long time to load!

But it was well worth the wait.  Amazing.

~Boar

[viking]

Boar

I have cable. The download was less than 2 seconds. Almost instant. You have a good connection?

The photos are outstanding!! You would think they were taken with a 10 meg digital.

[TexasBoar]

Boar

I have cable. The download was less than 2 seconds. Almost instant. You have a good connection?

DSL and an iMac, Viking, it's usually pretty quick.  But big images take time, and unlike cable . . . sometimes with DSL you have to wait your turn. 

Really, though, it was probably only a minute.  In the old dialup days my box would've locked right up!

~Boar

[Kuna]

sometimes with DSL you have to wait your turn. 

Ahhhh... contention ratios!

Amazing how a 1.5 meg DSL connection is only as fast as a 256k connection in peak times AND they still charge you for 1.5Meg!

Telco's are the new banks...  We revolt because they are revolting!   

[Mir]

The country looks very clean and it looks like there were no MOBs then

[Bruce]

Great links.  Thanks  .

[Jack]

The first photo Ste has shown looks like it could be a present day Russian small village. Once you get far away from the big cities, this could pass for a present day village.

[Shadow]

The first photo Ste has shown looks like it could be a present day Russian small village. Once you get far away from the big cities, this could pass for a present day village.

It crossed my mind to ask if they have present-day pictures to compare them. I am sure that in the less populated areas you might not see a lot of change.

[Kuna]

I'd expect the only differences in the small villages now days would be the presence of a McDonalds... but only if it is big enough!