“During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.”
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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