[Stinky12]

Came upon some awesome photos on Russia from a Century ago.
Check it out!

Russia from 100 years ago photos

[Lithium]

I posted a topic with these pictures about a year ago in the photography section.


Great pics.

[Chunkyman]

Good lord those are high quality!

[Evil.Tim]

Jesus Christ those look cool. I knew I should have expected something good from the comments here, but the color in those is just amazing. I've seen some other colored pre-WWI sets, but this is the best one yet.

This post has been edited by Evil.Tim on Tuesday, May 22 2012, 16:35

[Toke]

Wow those are absolutely beautiful!!!

I would like to see some of the landscape nowadays and do some comparisons,

[UberChargedCJ]

looks like the photos are maked in 2010's

[Girish]

QUOTE (UberChargedCJ @ Tuesday, May 22 2012, 22:21)

looks like the photos are maked in 2010's

No, those photos are not maked in 2010.

QUOTE

...used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.

[Sup3rman]

This tehnique is primitive but for it's time, amazingly futuristic. With this way, they should have photographed Titanic or something. We could have some color pictures of her then, and it would solve the question about the color of her funnels. Anyways, seen these pics before but still good you shared.

[UberChargedCJ]

QUOTE (Girish @ Tuesday, May 22 2012, 17:05)

QUOTE (UberChargedCJ @ Tuesday, May 22 2012, 22:21) looks like the photos are maked in 2010's No, those photos are not maked in 2010. QUOTE ...used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.

the quality

[GTA_stu]

Really amazing pictures. Gives you an idea of the sheer immense size of Russia by the different peoples represented, and their clothes and appearances. I've always been interested in Russian history, in fact I bought a book which cost £22 and that's without taking into account the delivery cost. And I hardly ever read books so that was pretty impressive for me.

[Der_Don]

Wow, great photos!

[Voodoo]

This is a fantastic pic of meta.

[BRITLAND]

These are so HD that im gonna go as far as call them fake, seriously how can you do that to pics from 100s years ago?

[Gareth Croke]

QUOTE (BRITLAND @ May 22 2012, 18:09)

These are so HD that im gonna go as far as call them fake, seriously how can you do that to pics from 100s years ago?

QUOTE (Girish @ May 22 2012, 17:05)

QUOTE ...used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.

That explains it, straight from the site as well.

These pics are amazing, why this technique was not more widespread I don't know.

[Chunkyman]

Why didn't more people use this photography technique back then?!?!?

It's f*cking amazing looking relative to the grainy black and whites you normally see.

[The General]

QUOTE (Gareth Croke @ Tuesday, May 22 2012, 13:34)

These pics are amazing, why this technique was not more widespread I don't know.[/font][/color]

Cost, perhaps? But yes, I do wish there were more of these photos.

[Sup3rman]

QUOTE (Chunkyman @ Tuesday, May 22 2012, 18:47)

It's f*cking amazing looking relative to the grainy black and whites you normally see.

Black n white photos from that are everything but grainy. Look at some pictures of ships that were photographed using glass to project the photo on. Those are way better quality photos than most todays ones.

[Antinark]

Pretty neat, I like how the only way you can tell it's archaic technology is the slightly blended time-lapse effect seen in the parts of the frame that would have been moving (the reflection off the water bears evidence of the filters).

It also makes the subject stand out from the background despite the really deep depth of field. It's pretty similar to early 3D technology.

[nightwalker83]

I wish there could be more photos, documentation like that to capture the history of places or people.

[finn4life]

That's really cool.
@Girish, so it kinda guesses the colours from the shades of grey? I am confused.
I wonder if this could be applied to some really old photos on the wall of the pub of the town i grew up in.

Also can anyone tell me what breed of dog this is? I haven't seen on quite like it, it looks similar to a Maremma...but not quite.