Re: Greg Wageman..asks "when first color prints for masses? " (digest 1572)

[P3D Bob Howard <bobh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RE: Color prints for the masses 

While it was known how to make engravings  by three color separation
since at least 1900, usually of paintings and other art, no color film
existed that was good enough to print from (e.g. Lumiere, Dufaycolor)
until Kodachrome. And three color separations for it were offered in the
magazines at $100 for one 8x10 (see how lucky we are.) In 1946 Kodak
introduced the first color negative for users bassed on their developing
a color neg for motion pictures to combat Technicolor (b&w film
separations negs made in camera). While the movie film wasn't good
enough to withstand fading, they reslease the amateur product and called
it Kodacolor (a retread of a strange movie film name that had lenticular
lenses embossed on the film and used tri-color filter on camera lens and
projector in the '30s. Leitz sold a filter if you got some of this in
your Leica as bulk film!)
The 1946 Kodacolor prints were the first you could get in quantity as a
decent price, but turned yellow (the whites of the pix) in time. Later
they made improvements. Next camera R prints, reversible paper to print
from slides..circa 1950? BobH


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