ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoFinnish soldier looking at a burning town in Karelia, 1944i.redd.itimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1193arrow-down12
arrow-up1191arrow-down1imageFinnish soldier looking at a burning town in Karelia, 1944i.redd.itProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-217 hours agoStill fairly early for color photography, no? Looks incredible.
minus-squareRustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 hours 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-up2·6 hours 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-squareGammelfisch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoAGFA developed color photography and the film was available during WW II.
minus-squareludlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours 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-squarebrachypelmasmithilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·13 hours agoYeah, it’s hand-colored. Kudos to whoever did it, it looks really good.
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agoThat was my first thought too, “man this must be colorised right? Or…?” Stunning picture, looks like a movie poster.
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!
AGFA developed color photography and the film was available during WW II.
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.
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.