Autochrome Lumière
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Autochrome
Techniques Glossary Autochrome
Early colour transparency system, using a mosaic of additive colour filters.
Autochrome plates were the invention of Auguste and Louis Lumiere, who patented the process in 1904 and began to market it commercially in 1907.
-Autochrome - early commercial color photography process in which the principles of additive color synthesis were applied.
-Autofocus - device used in certain cameras, projectors and enlargers that focuses the image automatically.
Thermal-autochrome, a process used in a few printers from Fuji, uses a special paper containing separate layers for the cyan, magenta and yellow pigments.
1907: First commercial color film, the Autochrome plates, manufactured by Lumiere brothers in France
1909: Lewis Hine hired by US National Child Labor Committee to photograph children working mills.
Later on, the Lumière brothers invented the very first color film called Autochrome. The Autochrome was launched in the market in 1907. This process involved the use of a screen plate filter, which dyed dots made from potato starch.
As a portraitist and free- lance photographer in San Francisco, New York, and London, he was always experimenting - using multiple- exposure, solarization, cliché- verre, relief printing, the gum- bichromate and autochrome processes, ...
 See also: Photograph, Chrome, Photography, Image, Camera
  
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