[Farmall] Spam> Spam/Phish> Re: F 20 hood & radiator shell stripes

[Dave Merchant]

You have to watch out in trying to interpret colors in old B+W photos.

Early film translated colors to B+W grayscale differently than modern film,
since it lacked sensitivity to certain parts of the color spectrum.

Here is a 1930 Kodak ad for their new "Pan" film that explains what's 
happening.

http://www.photo.net/learn/optics/edscott/pss00030.htm

Dave Merchant


At 08:15 AM 5/29/2007, Farmallgray at aol.com wrote:

> >From what I have seen in archive photos they are most likely gold to match
>the border of the decals. I have seen some close up photos where the trade 
>name
>  decals and the pinstripes can both be seen, and they look the same. You can
>tell  they are both metallic by the way the camera flash is reflected. I 
>don't
>agree  about them being black on the red tractors. In all the archive photos
>I have  seen, (even photos dated from late 1938) they are light colored.
>Todd Markle
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