A pioneering photographic method shows its true colours

Image: Physicist Gabriel Lippmann used his ground-breaking method for making colour photographs to capture this self-portrait. Credit: G. Baechler et al. / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. Article source:  Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA (2021). Nature – April 12, 2021.

Twenty-first-century sleuthing details the distortions of an early imaging technique.

Physicist Gabriel Lippmann won a Nobel prize in 1908 for his imaging technique, which was thought to faithfully capture scenes in colour. But the technique isn’t perfect. An analysis shows how ‘Lippmann photography’ distorts colours — and its authors […]

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