Who invented color photography and when?

Answer 1

James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish scientist, came up with the theory of color Photography in 1855. He said that if you took three photos of the same scene, one each through a red filter, a green filter and a blue filter, put the photos into three different projectors, and fitted the projectors with the same filters used to take the photos in the first place, you would get a color picture. He actually tried it. It didn't work all that well because photo emulsions in Maxwell's day were orthochromatic, or only sensitive to one color, namely blue. But he got a picture that was in color, and that's pretty cool.

In 1903, the Lumiere brothers introduced the Autochrome process. These guys dyed potato starch red-orange, green, and blue-violet, waited until it dried, mixed the three colors and applied it to a glass plate. They then put a black-and-white photo emulsion over the top of it. They started making it on film in the 1930s, and it remained available until the 1950s.

In the 1930s, the Germans invented "Agfacolor Neu" film, which was like the films we can get today, and the American inventors Leopold Godowski and Leopold Mannes (who were professional musicians as well as trained scientists) invented Kodachrome also in the 1930s.

Answer 2

Kodak invented it! Kodak developed the first multi layer color film (Kodachrome) in the early 1930s but the first "permanent" color photograph is credited to James Clerk Maxwell in 1861.

Answer 3

Hi I hope that this answers your question Thomas Edison invented the first colour filmm/picture in 1895 Hope it helps A Friend

Answer 4

In 1935, Kodak released its Kodachrome film, which was the first consumer color film.

Answer 5

Color photography was invented in 19th century.And first color photo was taken in 1861 by a scottish physicist James clerk maxwell.

Answer 6

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