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230:(retrieved 12 October 2012) features several photographs of the 9 x 24 cm model and a more detailed description of its operation, along with an abundance of related information. The Miethe-Bermpohl Dreifarbenkamera ("three-color camera") should not be confused with the much later Bermpohl Naturfarbenkamera ("natural color camera"), a very different "one-shot" type that simultaneously exposed three separate plates and was manufactured from 1929 until circa 1950.
250:. Text in German only. This scholarly thesis illustrates, describes and analyzes Miethe's equipment in some detail, with a particular focus on the Miethe-Goerz three-color projector and the characteristics of the color filters used. Examples of Miethe's photographs, some possibly as early as 1902, can be found in the color illustration section that follows the main text.
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285:(accessed 26 September 2012) reports six weeks of study with Miethe in 1902. Other accounts give the year as 1889, but a primary source for that extremely early date is not apparent and it does not accord with the circa 1889 biographical details of either man.
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