ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agoFinnish soldier looking at a burning town in Karelia, 1944i.redd.itimagemessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1282arrow-down13
arrow-up1279arrow-down1imageFinnish soldier looking at a burning town in Karelia, 1944i.redd.itProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agomessage-square69fedilink
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·edit-227 days agoStill fairly early for color photography, no? Looks incredible.
minus-squareRustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·27 days agoIt has a watermark explicitly saying it’s a colorization. The embossed faux cursive is pretty hard to make out, but it is https://www.jecinci.com/
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·27 days agoSo it does. I couldn’t bother reading the logos when there was an amazing picture to look at. Good thing I’m not a police detective I suppose!
minus-squarebrachypelmasmithi@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·27 days agoYeah, it’s hand-colored. Kudos to whoever did it, it looks really good.
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·27 days agoThat was my first thought too, “man this must be colorised right? Or…?” Stunning picture, looks like a movie poster.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·27 days agoColour photography has actually existed longer than you expect. There are actually a few real colour images of WW2. Most are coloured afterwards but some real colour images exist.
minus-squareGammelfisch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·27 days agoAGFA developed color photography and the film was available during WW II.
Still fairly early for color photography, no? Looks incredible.
It has a watermark explicitly saying it’s a colorization. The embossed faux cursive is pretty hard to make out, but it is https://www.jecinci.com/
So it does. I couldn’t bother reading the logos when there was an amazing picture to look at. Good thing I’m not a police detective I suppose!
Yeah, it’s hand-colored. Kudos to whoever did it, it looks really good.
That was my first thought too, “man this must be colorised right? Or…?”
Stunning picture, looks like a movie poster.
Colour photography has actually existed longer than you expect. There are actually a few real colour images of WW2. Most are coloured afterwards but some real colour images exist.
AGFA developed color photography and the film was available during WW II.