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ONE of the problems to be encountered in the early days of photography was that photographic materials were not sensitive to the spectrum in the same way that the eye is. Whereas the normal eye is sensitive to the colours of the spectrum from violet through blue, green, yellow and orange to red, the early photographic plates were sensitive only to the ultra-violet, violet and blue.
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Mees, C. Sensitising Dyes and their Use in Scientific Photography. Nature 137, 726–730 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137726a0
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