Who invented colour photography as we know it today?

rob	The Lumiere brother's 1907 Autochrome was indeed the first practical colour process, but it is not the one we use today. Does anyone know what year our present colour process was invented?! Apr 12 03, 8:29 PM

Noodlescratcher

The first three colour film was the Kodachrome transparencies in 1935. The first three colour negative film ('as we know it today') was Kodacolor in 1941. Apr 14 03, 7:51 PM

mk2norwich

mk2norwich says: Colour photography, or the process for it, was developed in 1907 by the French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere. The Lumiere brothers' colour process, which they called Autochrome, was based around takng three separate photographs of the same image. Each screen comprised a glass plate covered with grains of starch which had been dyed to act as a primary colour filter. Thus, they were able to create three separate plates, each filtered so that only red, green and blue could be seen in the respective plates. When the three plates were superimposed and light shone through, the result was a full colour image. Source: ITV Visual History of the 20th Century. Sat Apr 12 14:54:53 CDT 2003 (To fix typo - McG) Apr 18 03, 10:18 AM