[HN Gopher] What is Technicolor? (2021) ___________________________________________________________________ What is Technicolor? (2021) Author : thunderbong Score : 24 points Date : 2023-06-09 08:06 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.studiobinder.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.studiobinder.com) | isx726552 wrote: | The full blown three strip technicolor process with dye-transfer | prints was a true marvel. The picture it produced was absolutely | incredible for its age, and thanks to the stability of the eyes, | the prints retain their quality for decades. If you ever get a | chance to see a vintage dye transfer print projected in a cinema, | it's really something to see. | dcminter wrote: | > thanks to the stability of the eyes | | Took me a few seconds to work out that this was a typo, not | some strange persistence-of-vision related effect! | aleph_minus_one wrote: | I would have thought that this text turns out to be about physics | beyond the standard model: | | > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor_(physics) | Animats wrote: | Technicolor is one of those technologies where, with enough money | and determination, someone did something for which the technology | wasn't really ready. | | Something similar happened with color TV.[1] Early color TV | cameras were as big as Technicolor cameras. Same 3-channel | concept, with a splitter prism, filters, and a camera tube for | each color. The camera tubes were image orthicons.[2] The whole | setup was insanely complicated, had hundreds of adjustment | potentiometers, and took hours to get set up and stable. | | On the display side, the first good theater-scale projection TV | system was Eidiphor.[3] As with the cameras, the system was big, | complicated, expensive, and required three of everything. | Eidophor was developed in 1939, and nothing better came along | until the 1990s. | | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_TK-40/41 | | [2] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_camera_tube#Image_orthic... | | [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidophor | RobotToaster wrote: | Reminds me of the complicated process needed to develop | kodachrome film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome | dang wrote: | Related. Others? Not much over the years... | | _How Technicolor created Ruby slippers without using color film_ | - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28071731 - Aug 2021 (47 | comments) | | _"Technicolor for Industrial Films" 1940 Process Promotional | Film [video]_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25897711 - | Jan 2021 (1 comment) | | _Explore the Early Years of Technicolor Film in 40,000 | Documents_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15133951 - Aug | 2017 (1 comment) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-06-10 23:01 UTC)