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Re:Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris by jcoder on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:53PM (#5118870)
Beautiful, but it's too bad that the digital reproductions are so noisy.
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Re:Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris by Turing_Machine on Saturday January 26, 2013 @11:01AM (#5120667)
If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, it's not digital noise. It's an artifact of the Autochrome process. The images are made with colored grains of potato starch. It's a fascinating process that (to my knowledge) has never been successfully reproduced in modern times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome

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Re:Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris by jcoder on Saturday January 26, 2013 @03:34PM (#5121668)
That's really interesting---I assumed it was just really bad JPEG compression!
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