P3D Re: Good Old Henry and 19th Century Colour

["Ray Moxom" <raymoxom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In P3D-3161 Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Thinking out loud, I wonder if 3-D would have caught on in the 19th
>century if they had color! I'm speculating if they did, 3D wouldn't
>have been as big a deal. Heresy, I know!

But Gabriel, there was colour in the 19th century - Including coloured 
stereo slides.

In the late 1800s the mass market had their Holms Stereoscopes and 
monochrome cards.  However, the true enthusiast, (our more affluent 19th 
Century equivalents perhaps?) had their Ives Stereo Photochromoscopes 
complete with three pairs of stereo transparencies per image (a pair for 
each primary colour).  

The Australian national library has sets of "Ives" glass coloured slides 
taken in the 1890s of subjects including Windsor Castle and close ups of 
strawberries and tins of tobacco where the colour is as clear as the day 
the slides were taken.  

If you see these you will all agree that 19th century colour slides are 
better than 19th century colour prints.  As you can see, very little has 
changed, slides are still the better medium for stereo photography.

The Ives process was one of the fore runners of the Technicolour 
process.

(yes, we use UK spelling in Australia)

Ray Moxom, Sydney Australia


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