Mitchell Holman wrote:
Bob Harrington wrote in
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Mitchell Holman wrote in
news:Xns98B7D4A7D83EFta2eene2 @216.196.97.131:

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Pretty sure this is a WW2 period color photo... The F-5 shows the
'Haze' paint scheme used by some PR Lightnings.

Bob ^,,^



I have seen pictures of WWII.

The world was black and white then. The world did not gain color
until the mid 1950's.







The first modern ('integrated tri-pack') color film, Kodachrome, was
introduced in 1935 based on three colored emulsions. Most modern color
films, except Kodachrome, are based on technology developed for
Agfacolor (as 'Agfacolor Neue') in 1936.

Go here for a fascinating and informative history:

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

Would you believe color photos from 1850 ?

The National Archives is "almost finished" with a project begun in 1990
to scan ALL color transparencies taken by US military photographers.
That includes glass plates from World War One, 8x10" sheets from WW2 and
later, and the zillions of color slides in 35mm, 2-1/4x2-1/4 and 70mm
sizes from later days including Vietnam.

I've always wondered what happened to the hundreds of cassettes of 70mm
Kodachrome which I exposed using a Graflex XL over and around the DMZ
and such garden spots as Dong Ha. Someone wanted "briefing slides for
the Pentagon" and the colonel came to taff Sergeant Mann -- "Hey, let's
get Mann to do it, he's crazy, he'll do anything".

I'll tell you about the Rolleiflex and the Leica bombs -- the chopper
banked like really sharply, I didn't have the gunner's harness attached,
the choice was let the cameras go or let me go.

Cameras went, 500 feet into the DMZ

Cheers,

Dave