The Color Box
The color box offers a better way to take manual tri-color photos. It does a good job blocking light from entering the lens from the rear. It accepts 100x100x2 mm sized filters.
The photo shows it is using
these three 100mm filters
Kodak Dark Red
#29 Wratten
#29 Wratten
Kodak Deep Blue
#47 Wratten
#47 Wratten
Kodak Deep Green
#61 Wratten
Experimental Color
Wheel
For our monochrome cameras, we’re working on a color wheel. This one is a 3D-printed plastic and 320mm in diameter. Using a color wheel should give much better color than a Bayer-type color filter, but it is not suitable for moving objects.
Experimental Color
Wheel
For our monochrome cameras, we’re working on a color wheel. This one is a 3D-printed plastic and 320mm in diameter. Using a color wheel should give much better color than a Bayer-type color filter, but it is not suitable for moving objects
It uses these three 100mm filters
Kodak Dark Red #29 Wratten
Kodak Deep Blue #47 Wratten
Kodak Deep Green #61 Wratten
No yellow due to lack of software support,
but yellow can be added later
100+ years old
technology
A Russian, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, took tri-color photos over 100 years ago using glass plates and a color wheel. It is interesting to go back in time and see his photos. See his photos at the Library of Congress.
Shy Pie in color
Bike in color:
Status May
2017
For now we’re doing 3 colors manually, in the future we may build an auto color wheel, though there are difficulties with that so we’re holding off for now.
Still life is straight forward, but it is possible to take images with people also if they can stay still.