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" During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other. "
Those
Half
Mirror
" I got quite good results from protein plates. "
Results
Quite
Protein
" In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima. "
Sensitive
Say
Infinity
" Life is short and progress is slow. "
Life Is Short
Life
Short
" Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out. "
Easy
Enough
Carry
" The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue. "
Long
Portrait
Progress
" 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. "
Image
Colour
Point
" The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. "
Colour
Last
Photography
" The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour. "
Operations
Washing
Final
" This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer. "
Which
Within
Sensitive
" When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection. "
Colour
Light
Reflection
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