19 Facts About Color film

Color film photography is photography that uses media capable of capturing and reproducing colors.

Color film photography has been the dominant form of photography since the 1970s, with monochrome photography mostly relegated to niche markets such as art photography.

Color film's earliest surviving color prints are "sun prints" of pressed flowers and leaves, each of the three negatives having been made without a camera by exposing the light-sensitive surface to direct sunlight passing first through a color filter and then through the vegetation.

Color film identified dyes which variously sensitized for all the previously ineffective colors except true red, to which only a marginal trace of sensitivity could be added.

The very last film version, named Alticolor, brought the Autochrome process into the 1950s but was discontinued in 1955.

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The most recent use of the additive screen process for non-digital photography was in Polachrome, an "instant" 35mm slide Color film introduced in 1983 and discontinued about twenty years later.

In 1935, American Eastman Kodak introduced the first modern "integral tripack" color film and called it Kodachrome, a name recycled from an earlier and completely different two-color process.

In keeping with Kodak's old "you press the button, we do the rest" slogan, the Color film was simply loaded into the camera, exposed in the ordinary way, then mailed to Kodak for processing.

The complicated part, if the complexities of manufacturing the Color film are ignored, was the processing, which involved the controlled penetration of chemicals into the three layers of emulsion.

Expense of color film as compared to black-and-white and the difficulty of using it with indoor lighting combined to delay its widespread adoption by amateurs.

Black-and-white film continued to be used by some photographers who preferred it for aesthetic reasons or who wanted to take pictures by existing light in low-light conditions, which was still difficult to do with color film.

Negative Color film is therefore more suitable for casual use by amateurs.

Color film began writing a monthly column on color photography for the U S Camera Magazine around 1930.

In 1940 he published his seminal book Photographing in Color film, using high quality illustrations to explain his techniques.

Color film saw it as a new way to frame the world; a way to experiment with the subjects he photographed and how he conveyed emotion in the photograph.

Color film published a book entitled The Art of Color Photography, in which he explained the importance of understanding the "special and often subtle relationships between different colors".

Color film described the psychological and emotional power that color can have on the viewer, since certain colors, he argues, can make people feel a certain way.

Color film preferred to take pictures mainly using black-and-white film.

Color film wrote books about technique, developed the Zone System—which helped determine the optimal exposure and development time for a given photograph—and introduced the idea of "previsualization", which involved the photographer imagining what he wanted his final print to look like before he even took the shot.