100 year old, glass plate "color" images

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:06 pm

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:36 pm

Fascinating stuff, for sure!

Oddly enough, this link has turned up once before...in a thread on stacking.

HERE

--Rik

Mike B in OKlahoma · Post by **Mike B in OKlahoma** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:57 pm

I believe some of the earlier interplanetary reconnaissance probes used this same method to generate color images with 1960s-era digital cameras. I can't find a really good reference with a quick google, but this at least makes reference to it:

http://www.archive.org/stream/marinerpi ... l_djvu.txt

(scroll down to "the television system") Unfortunately, this web version of the original document doesn't include the photographs, and is text-only.

I was a barely teen-aged space enthusiast at the time, and had almost forgotten this!