When did color photography begin?

In 1860, Maxwell (Maxwell1831–1879) studied color negative films, and took the lead in taking pictures of the three primary colors of red, green and blue, and then superimposed and projected them to form a color image.

This is the process of adding color, which leads to the principle that color TV can develop color. From then on, world photography began to move from black and white to color. That is, the rise of what people call the "color photography era". 186 1 year, Maxwell (Maxwell1831–1879) 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 in China's first tier cities. If popularization means widespread use, it is to use non-digital cameras first and then digital cameras.

Its spread is not only determined by the film price, because color development is not something we can do by ourselves, so it depends on the development of supporting facilities, so it was really widely used in China in the 1990s, because printing equipment began to be widely used.

It was probably popular abroad in the 1960s. The invention of color photography was invented by American photographer Levi Hill in 1839. Since then, colorful natural colors have become the goal pursued by photographers.