James Clark Maxwell

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A scientist rather than a photographer but he is the father of colour imaging demostrating the ability to make a colour image from three primary colours.

see from 24 minutes in to documenatary.

I hadn't realised that colour imaging was happening as early as 1861.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...s-clerk-maxwell-the-man-who-changed-the-world
 

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Color photography started even earlier (1850's) with the Hillotype though the Colors were not 100 natural and not that strong recent scientific studies of the process(meaning 8 years ago) seem to indicate that Hill did not lie and was indeed able to produce color Daguerreotype. In 1981 Joseph Boudreau was able to reproduce the Hillotype process and was able to get (though muted) Colors that were very close to the subjects coloring.

Anyway thanks for the link
 

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I'm trying to understand how he became known for something that painters have known for many, many centuries, unless someone is hair splitting between projected images, and images that are painted, printed, etc. Colour is colour, no matter what the medium.
 

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TheFlyingCamera said:
And an interesting side-note: Edwin Land later demonstrated that you could do it with two (although it wasn't 100% accurate color reproduction, but nonetheless...).
Click to expand...

That happened long before Land. Especially notable were the 2 color Technicolor movies and the 2 color Kodachrome.

PE
 

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Oddly enough his name is James Clerk Maxwell. 1831 - 1879. Einstein, when asked if he stood on the shoulders of Newton, replied "No, I stood on the shoulders of Maxwell." Imagine what Maxwell could have accomplished had he lived longer.... Here's a link: http://www.famousscientists.org/james-clerk-maxwell/
 

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He is amazing the things what he accomplished , and I never heard of him.
 

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I always liked his equations.
 

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That rather puts a curl or partial derivative on it, doesn't it.
 

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Those four looks rather very simple but in reality they very hard to solve.
 
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