Life is short and progress is slow.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.Gabriel Lippmann
The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.
Gabriel Lippmann
The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
Gabriel Lippmann
The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
Gabriel Lippmann
When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
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