But in its time the autochrome was hailed as a dramatic improvement over existing methods for color photography, which required setting up three cameras, recording separate but identical subjects ...

The Lumière brothers introduced autochrome in 1907. It was the first commercially available photographic process capable of capturing colour in a single exposure using a standard camera.

Kings and Things took an informative look at the very early use of color autochrome photography in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which was invented by the ...

As Linden explains, "To create an autochrome, a unique, glass plate negative - covered in grains of potato starch dyed red, green, and blue - would be inserted into the camera so that light could ...