>>3451514>not sure exactly how that differentiates from today's photography, but everything looks like a paintingAutochrome was a very interesting and clever process. I guess it is a bit of a painting, since the final image is made up from small pieces of coloured starch, kinda like a very fine impressionist technique.
There is some inherent softness to it, as when viewing (or scanning), light gets scattered more, since the starches are thicker than silver grains. This of course is on top of the softness of the lenses of the era.
And then the saturation and contrast is not the same, since you were limited by the purity of the starch pigments and their saturation.
Very interesting look, and to go a step further, the whole pictorialism style is severely underrated and underrepresented in modern photography.
