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"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
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"When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection."
"The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image."
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"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
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