When did color photos become popular?

1860.

In 1860 AD, the British Maxwell (1831–1879) studied color negatives and was the first to use the three primary colors of red, green, and blue to photograph separately and then overlap and project them to create color images.

This is the Additive Process, which leads to the principle that today's color televisions (Color Television) can display colors. From then on, the world photography started to move from black and white to color. This is the rise of what people call the "age of color photography." In 1861, the British Maxwell (1831–1879) took the first color photo.

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Development history

Color photos became popular in China in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and became popular in first-tier cities in China. If popular means widespread use, non-digital cameras were used first, and then digital cameras were used.

Its spread is not solely determined by the price of film, because color processing cannot be done by oneself, so it depends on the development of supporting facilities. Therefore, it was really widely used in the country in the 1990s, because printing equipment Begin to be widely used.

It became popular abroad probably in the 1960s. Color photography was invented by American photographer Levi Hill in 1839. Since then, colorful natural colors have been the goal pursued by photographers.