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so it's the early 20th century photography has been a thing for a while now and simple cameras are flooding the consumer market so far though these cameras aren't capturing color oh sure discovering a light-sensitive material incorporating it onto a flexible substrate and commercializing production and development processes at scale to create a simple easy and at least relatively inexpensive way to capture moments in time is pretty dang impressive but the world isn't black and white it wouldn't be too long though until photography got a little more colorful this is an autochrome plate one of the earliest commercially successful color photography processes and it is fascinating in its simplicity especially given how detailed the images can be believe it or not this is in fact nothing more than an ordinary black and white photograph okay well obviously that's not true what i mean is the chemistry used to produce the plate and to develop the image is largely th