In mid-March of 1943, an unnamed US Army photographer visited Ondal Air Base, then under construction northwest of Calcutta in British India. He was a...
The Maxwell-Sutton photograph of a tartan ribbon is considered the first permanent color image ever captured. Maxwell displayed the image as a set of overlaid projections of grayscale images which were captured and displayed through red, green and blue filters. The 3 original transparencies still exist, along with a fourth ...
The RGB (red-green-blue) system of color imaging is so well established that it may seem to be the only option. There are practical and theoretical reasons, however, to consider whether RBG cameras might soon become obsolete. The RGB or ("trichromatic") system dates back to the first ever color photograph, taken with...