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    Quote Originally Posted by Father Bill View Post
    Sorry; no indicators. The poor quality suggests it might be an original colour photo, but I'm not 'up' on that enough to give a qualified answer.
    The vividity of the colours (similar to the quality in the recent colourised film) suggests that the photo has been tweaked and tidied up recently.

    Regarding an original colour photo but unles someone more in the know can clarify otherwise my understanding is that all early colour photos were in fact black and white with the colours added later. Certainly that's the case with colour postcards from the late 19th early 20th c. I may be wrong though?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Allan Thomson View Post
    The vividity of the colours (similar to the quality in the recent colourised film) suggests that the photo has been tweaked and tidied up recently.

    Regarding an original colour photo but unless someone more in the know can clarify otherwise my understanding is that all early colour photos were in fact black and white with the colours added later. Certainly that's the case with colour postcards from the late 19th early 20th c. I may be wrong though?
    While there was a rudimentary colour photography process about this time, it's pretty rare. Colour photographs don't become commonplace for candid/home use until Kodachome is invented in the 30's. Not really popular until after the next war. That's why most WW2 era photos are B&W.
    It was common to hand colour a photo after printing. The colours are usually very vivid. This photo is a bit puzzling , however. The tartans are well done- it'd be hard to do that by hand for all those kilts. Suggests computer enhancement not hand done. On the other hand, note that the flashes are not uniform in shade. The blue of the shoulder patches really stand out . Perhaps that's our hint. Did the 13 RHC use blue shoulder patches?
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    Pretty sure this is a colourised photo.

    Because that's not the colour-scheme of Black Watch kilts. (The areas that are supposed to be black have been painted green.)

    And the squares of tartan on the TOSs are red rather than matching the tartan of the kilts.

    I've expressed before my disappointment with these WWI colourised photos.

    One thing they consistently get wrong is sporran-colour, painting the ORs' sporrans of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders brown. I've seen many of them in person, I now own one made during WWI, and they are quite black.

    I believe they also paint the black tassels on Black Watch, Gordons, and Seaforths sporrans brown.
    Last edited by OC Richard; 11th January 19 at 06:02 AM.
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