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1930's two-mirror, three-film color offset cameras
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 9:32 pm    Post subject: 1930's two-mirror, three-film color offset cameras Reply with quote
One early method of color photography, split the output of 1 lens, through C-Y-M filters onto 3 pieces of film. Print these one on top of each other in R-G-B and you have color!

Edward Steichen of course shows off with a double exposure:

Heavy Lilies by Edward Steichen 1937 by Nesster, on Flickr

He used a Devin camera which looks like this
http://www.vintagephoto.tv/devin_img.shtml

Butkus has a brochure explaining things well:
http://www.cameramanuals.org/booklets/devin_tricolor.pdf

I haven't found an ad for Devin but I did find two competitors, so this was a minor movement for a while


Curtis Color-Scout 1939 by Nesster, on Flickr

http://www.vintagephoto.tv/scouts2.shtml
http://www.vintagephoto.tv/scouts1.shtml


Lerochrome cameras by Nesster, on Flickr


PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 6:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Another camera with the same method:
http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C480.html#C480
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