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Introduced commercially in 1907, Autochrome Lumière used a microscopic mosaic of dyed potato-starch grains over a photographic emulsion to record colour on glass.

Colour caught in a field of grains

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The Lumière process spread millions of tiny red-orange, green and blue-violet starch grains across a glass plate, filling the gaps with lampblack and coating the screen with light-sensitive emulsion. After reversal processing, the finished transparency needed transmitted light to glow. Long exposures softened movement and the irregular mosaic lent images a pointillist atmosphere: modern colour arriving through an unexpectedly edible material.

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1907'de piyasaya çıkan Autochrome Lumière, boyanmış mikroskobik patates nişastası tanelerinden oluşan mozaiği fotoğraf emülsiyonuyla birleştirerek rengi cam üzerine kaydetti.
Taneler tarlasında yakalanan renk

Lumière işlemi milyonlarca küçük kırmızı-turuncu, yeşil ve mavi-mor nişasta tanesini cam plaka üzerine yaydı; araları lamba isiyle doldurup ekranı ışığa duyarlı emülsiyonla kapladı. Ters işlemden geçen saydam görüntü, ancak içinden ışık geçince parlıyordu. Uzun poz süreleri hareketi yumuşatıyor, düzensiz mozaik görüntülere noktacı bir hava katıyordu: modern renk, hiç umulmadık bir mutfak malzemesinden doğmuştu.

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