Wikipedia:POTD column/August 13, 2006
This photo of the Nilov Monastery on
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1910 before the advent of colour photography. His process used a camera that took a series of monochrome
pictures in rapid sequence, each through a different coloured filter. By projecting all three monochrome pictures using correctly-coloured light, it was possible to reconstruct the original colour scene.
Photo credit: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
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