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English: Tartan Ribbon, photograph taken by James Clerk Maxwell in 1861. Considered the first colour photograph. Maxwell had the photographer Thomas Sutton photograph a tartan ribbon three times, each time with a different colour filter over the lens. The three images were developed and then projected onto a screen with three different projectors, each equipped with the same colour filter used to take its image. When brought into focus, the three images formed a full colour image. The three photographic plates now reside in a small museum at 14 India Street, Edinburgh, the house where Maxwell was born.
Source

Scanned from The Illustrated History of Colour Photography, Jack H. Coote, 1993. ISBN 0-86343-380-4.
Date

1861
Author

James Clerk Maxwell (original picture) ; scan by User:Janke.
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Date/TimeDimensionsUserComment
current16:11, 17 November 20061,100×900 (420 KB)Janke (Better scan, from "Colour Photography", J.H. Coote, ISBN 0-86343-380-4)
01:12, 1 August 2006831×1,011 (146 KB)Warofdreams (Taken from A World History of Photography ISBN 0789203294 Tartan Ribbon, photograph taken by James Clerk Maxwell in 1861. Considered the first colour photograph.)