File talk:L.N.Tolstoy Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg

Version 20:27, 18 April 2012 - 1,146 × 1,563 (808 KB) is nice

Version 20:27, 18 April 2012, 1,146 × 1,563 (808 KB) provides fine details and looks good to me. Cannot see why it's dumped due to "it is overall very noisy and the colours are odd". --Kraschnaut (talk) 20:12, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Date of photo of Leo Tolstoy by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky

Copied to here from mw:Extension_talk:Media_Viewer/About, as it's about this pic, not the media viewer. The bad design of the MV, that leads to such errors, is tracked here in this Phab Grüße vom Sänger ♫ ^(talk) 16:49, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

There was a question at the Leo Tolstoy article in the English Wikipedia about the date of the color photo. It was May 23, 1908. This site quotes Prokudin-Gorsky:

Included in the present issue is a portrait of Count L. N. Tolstoy, which was made by me on May 23 of this year [1908] . It is the first and only color portrait made directly "d'après nature." In spite of some unfavorable conditions for photographing (due to the hurricane in May) which forced me to increase considerably the exposure time, I nevertheless had to limit myself to an exposure time of only six seconds, which includes the time required for the movement [of the glass photographic plate] through the very large cassette. The shot was done one time, and I personally carried the cassette to Moscow, where it was only possible to remove the plates and pack them. The developing of the plates took place in Petersburg. This extremely difficult work could be executed with such a short exposure time solely because of the extraordinary sensitivity of my plates to light rays and their correct transfer, which anyone will understand who is familiar with the technology of colored reproductions.

The "present issue" referred to was the August 1908 issue of The Proceedings of the Russian Technical Society. Yopienso (talk) 02:30, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

No, it seems this is where I had originally posted it. Clump, why did you remove it? Thanks for enlightening me--I work on the English Wikipedia a fair amount but am unfamiliar with this territory. Yopienso (talk) 02:32, 28 June 2018 (UTC)