In what year were color photos invented?

Answer 1

It is not clear who invented the first, but several companies made color cameras. The earliest seems to be the 1899 Ives Kromskop Triple Camera by F.E. Ives of Philadelphia, who also made a direct color viewer for the plates.

Another early 20th century example was the German Jos-Pe in 1925.

Others were made by Devin Colorgraph Company (1939) and Curtis Laboratories in California (1948).

The color camera was a camera designed for making 3-color separation negatives on black and white film. It used three sheets of film for each exposure, each exposed through a different color filter: red, green, or blue. The filters and plate holders were placed separately, and the light path divided by prisms or pellical mirrors.

Answer 2

The first color plate, Autochrome, invented by the French Lumière brothers, reached the market in 1907. it took them a long while to be able to make a lard big enough to fit the pot. It was based on a 'screen-plate' filter made of dyed dots of potato starch, and was the only color film on the market until German Agfa introduced the similar Agfacolor in 1932. In 1935, American Kodak introduced the first modern ('integrated tri-pack') color film, Kodachrome, based on three colored emulsions. This was followed in 1936 by Agfa's Agfacolor Neue. Unlike the Kodachrome tri-pack process, the color couplers in Agfacolor Neue were integral with the emulsion layers, which greatly simplified the film processing. Most modern color films, except Kodachrome, are based on the Agfacolor Neue technology. Instant color film was introduced by Polaroid in 1963.

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In 1861 James C. Maxwell, Cambridge professor of physics who is best known for his work in electromagnetism, took the world's first color photograph of a tartan ribbon. Maxwell solved the problem of photographically recording color using basically the same method we use today in a modern digital camera. Maxwell's photograph was an RGB composite. He took three black & white photos of the ribbon; one through a red filter, one through a green filter and one through a blue filter. He then projected the three black & white images onto a wall registering them together. When the filters for each image were placed over the projection lenses a full color image appeared. Maxwell's work laid the foundation for all subsequent color photographic processes.

In 1869 Louis Ducos du Hauron, building upon Maxwell's discovery, published the details of a tri-color carbon pigment process for making color photographic prints. Although patented, du Hauron's work did not generate a commercial process.

Working at the turn of the century and beyond, the Russian photographer/inventor Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii created and used a tricolor camera that rapidily exposed three B&W neagtives as RGB composites to produce excellent full color photographs. See this link: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

Answer 3

Color Photography depended on film, not the capture device. Therefore, there was never a first "color camera" per se, but the first commercial color film, the Autochrome plates, were manufactured by Lumiere brothers in France in 1907.

(Information found in a timeline at Photo.net: http://photo.net/history/timeline)

Answer 4

Practically speaking this stemmed out of the technically adroit society of Czarist Russia! Chromatography- the pure science fact that different substanc3s separate colors by gravity this discovered by the botanist Tswett in l906 immediatley opened up doors to color photography before the year was out! Prior to this artists would hand-color large prints ( a side-benefit of large-scale cameras llike 4X5 and 5X70 in a sort of paint-by-number process. (Anastasia did this as well as take pictures) purpose-built color films came out, as stated in l906. Boith processes survived and the latter helped bridge graphic art with photography. a special tri-pack process requiring special lenses and filters was obligatory in the old days, there were special (Color) cameras so to speak.

Answer 5

What follows is good information with respect to marketed films, but it not entirely accurate as the answer to this question. The first permanent color photograph was made in 1861 by James Clerk Maxwell. Earlier attempts resulted in color photographs whose colors faded rather quickly.

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The first color plate, Autochrome, invented by the French Lumière brothers, reached the market in 1907. It was based on a 'screen-plate' filter made of dyed dots of potato starch, and was the only color film on the market until German Agfa introduced the similar Agfacolor in 1932. In 1935, American Kodak introduced the first modern ('integrated tri-pack') color film, Kodachrome, based on three colored emulsions. This was followed in 1936 by Agfa's Agfacolor Neue. Unlike the Kodachrome tri-pack process, the color couplers in Agfacolor Neue were integral with the emulsion layers, which greatly simplified the film processing. Most modern color films, except Kodachrome, are based on the Agfacolor Neue technology. Instant color film was introduced by Polaroid in 1963. Therefore, there are many different dates when color pictures were invented, depending on which one you are talking about.

Answer 6

1907 - The Autochrome Lumiere is the first color photography process marketed. (from wikipedia, timeline for photography)

Answer 7

The first color plate, Autochrome, invented by the French Lumière brothers, reached the market in 1907.

Answer 8

1848

Answer 9

Kodak

Answer 10

I don’t know