1mass noun, usually as modifierAn early form of colour photography using plates coated with dyed starch grains, patented by the Lumière brothers in 1904.
Made using the potato-based autochrome photographic process invented by the Lumiere brothers in 1903, they combine the calm stillness characteristic of long, slow exposure with colours of pointillist subtlety.
With the advent of the autochrome process (in its 100th anniversary in 2003), then Kodachrome and Agfacolor in the late 1930s, photographs became colorful but the process was mainly limited to commercial photography.
The actual colour photos were done using Auguste and Louis Lumière's autochrome process.
Anyway, that reminded me of these early colour (autochrome) photographs taken by Lionel Lindsay in the early years of the century, and displayed online at the National Library.
1.1count nounA colour photograph made using the autochrome process.
（采用奥托克罗姆微粒彩屏干版法拍摄的）彩色照片
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Both the glass base and the process used to create these autochromes are subject to deterioration.
As the original autochromes are all on glass, the glossy surface of cibachromes was chosen for reproduction.
Cleaning and preparing, and then scanning the fragile autochromes took a few weeks by itself.
Most of the autochromes are very dark (by nowadays standards) but they are really beautiful.
I dare to say that we had to wait for modern digital photography in order to manage mixed colour temperatures like autochromes did in the past.
Definition of autochrome in US English:
autochrome
nounˈôdōˌkrōm
1usually as modifierAn early form of color photography using plates coated with dyed starch grains, patented by the Lumière brothers in 1904.
Made using the potato-based autochrome photographic process invented by the Lumiere brothers in 1903, they combine the calm stillness characteristic of long, slow exposure with colours of pointillist subtlety.
The actual colour photos were done using Auguste and Louis Lumière's autochrome process.
Anyway, that reminded me of these early colour (autochrome) photographs taken by Lionel Lindsay in the early years of the century, and displayed online at the National Library.
With the advent of the autochrome process (in its 100th anniversary in 2003), then Kodachrome and Agfacolor in the late 1930s, photographs became colorful but the process was mainly limited to commercial photography.
1.1A color photograph made by the autochrome process.
（采用奥托克罗姆微粒彩屏干版法拍摄的）彩色照片
Example sentencesExamples
I dare to say that we had to wait for modern digital photography in order to manage mixed colour temperatures like autochromes did in the past.
Cleaning and preparing, and then scanning the fragile autochromes took a few weeks by itself.
Most of the autochromes are very dark (by nowadays standards) but they are really beautiful.
As the original autochromes are all on glass, the glossy surface of cibachromes was chosen for reproduction.
Both the glass base and the process used to create these autochromes are subject to deterioration.