PRCo PCC Colors

[Edward H. Lybarger]

The PTM Library has a 4x5 Kodachrome transparency of that view of 1734.  It
hasn't faded.  But remember that the color appearance can be affected by the
lighting and by reflections, etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
[mailto:owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org]On Behalf Of Derrick J
Brashear
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 5:47 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: Re: PRCo PCC Colors


On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Jim Holland wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> 	All the color photos I have of PRCo PCC equipment when relatively new
> show the red to have a definite orange bias.  The color is red but it is
> a soft red, not deep and hard.  Also, if you have the video
> *PCC-Triolgy* there are color photos of 1200s from 1940 when  NEW!
> These were shot quite professionally on 16mm film on tripod and are
> excellent in color rendition.

FWS3 if he were here would probably have good comments... I don't know,
not being old enough: How much can you count on color of shots that old to
not have shifted over the years? The thing that brings this to mind is the
comment on the photo of, I believe, the 4 aces in PCC From Coast To Coast
about the orthochromatic film being responsible for the dark rendering of
the car in that shot.

And even having a look at weathered paint on a surviving piece wouldn't
necessarily help, at least I think artificial pigment paints only came
into widespread use in the mid-late '50s.

-D
-has pondered questions of color perception far more than a
non-color-blind-civil-engineering-trained-computer-programmer should have