ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoFinnish soldier looking at a burning town in Karelia, 1944i.redd.itimagemessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1287arrow-down13
arrow-up1284arrow-down1imageFinnish soldier looking at a burning town in Karelia, 1944i.redd.itProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square69fedilink
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoStill fairly early for color photography, no? Looks incredible.
minus-squareGammelfisch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoAGFA developed color photography and the film was available during WW II.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months 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-squareRustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·5 months 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-down1·5 months 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-up7·5 months agoYeah, it’s hand-colored. Kudos to whoever did it, it looks really good.
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months 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.
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.
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.