31-10-2018, 01:50 PM
(31-10-2018, 11:31 AM)Damian GT Wrote: Fabulous pictures James. Does anybody know the colour of that car? Looks light in colour but remember that early black and white film was very insensitive to red light (hence dark room lighting) and the car could be red (or orange even?). Any details known?
The only colours to be sensitive to pre-Panchromatic film are in the blue spectrum, so this is likely to be a mid to pale blue or possibly a pale turquoise, just possibly green ... or, of course, white, cream or possibly bare alloy. Red, orange, brown, yellow would all appear as a very dark tone.