06-07-2022, 12:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-07-2022, 12:45 AM by Dennis Nicholas.)
One of the ancestry sites has a program that can turn old black/white photos into true coloured ones. Anyone on here have such a program so we could see these old photos in true colours?
In the early days of TV before colour we had black/white TVs on our ships and once colour became more common and after a bit of lobbying the firm got Marconi to make up boards of electronics that I fitted to the TVs to turn them into full colour using the UK standard (American standard - NTSC was hopeless). If I remember correctly, the electronics just converted the"grey scale " of the pictures to colour through suitable TV tubes that had the 3 slots for the 3 colours that make up the spectrum......such luxury in those days and quite a bit of a pain setting up the various adjustable components on the boards. Didn't last long as it fortunately soon became cheaper to buy colour TVs than mess about doing the conversions.
Dennis
In the early days of TV before colour we had black/white TVs on our ships and once colour became more common and after a bit of lobbying the firm got Marconi to make up boards of electronics that I fitted to the TVs to turn them into full colour using the UK standard (American standard - NTSC was hopeless). If I remember correctly, the electronics just converted the"grey scale " of the pictures to colour through suitable TV tubes that had the 3 slots for the 3 colours that make up the spectrum......such luxury in those days and quite a bit of a pain setting up the various adjustable components on the boards. Didn't last long as it fortunately soon became cheaper to buy colour TVs than mess about doing the conversions.
Dennis