Talk:Color photography

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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)

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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)