Difference between revisions of "Agfacolor"
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| − | [Agfa, Ger.] A registered trademark originally used for color photographic plates manufactured in Berlin in 1916. | + | [Agfa, Ger.] A registered trademark originally used for color photographic plates manufactured in Berlin in 1916. Agfacolor® plates were made with tiny dyed grains of [[gum arabic]] or [[shellac]]. The fine-grains gave an intense color. Agfacolor® grain sheets were introduced as rolls and sheets in 1932. A slide film, called Agfacolor® Neu (or Agfacolor® new) was introduced in 1936. It uses the subtractive color process to produce color negatives. Agfacolor® printing paper that used a multilayer negative-positive process was introduced in 1942. |
== Sources Checked for Data in Record == | == Sources Checked for Data in Record == | ||
Revision as of 13:07, 27 January 2020
Description
[Agfa, Ger.] A registered trademark originally used for color photographic plates manufactured in Berlin in 1916. Agfacolor® plates were made with tiny dyed grains of Gum arabic or Shellac. The fine-grains gave an intense color. Agfacolor® grain sheets were introduced as rolls and sheets in 1932. A slide film, called Agfacolor® Neu (or Agfacolor® new) was introduced in 1936. It uses the subtractive color process to produce color negatives. Agfacolor® printing paper that used a multilayer negative-positive process was introduced in 1942.
Sources Checked for Data in Record
- Luis Nadeau, Luis Nadeau, Encyclopedia of Printing, Photographic, and Photomechanical Processes, Atelier, New Brunswick, 1997
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agfacolor (Accessed Mar. 1, 2006)