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Originally Posted by Sandy G
Funny, you didn't see the "optical" artifacts when color came along, either...I never recall seeing the "edges" of the lens in a colorcast like you do so often in the old B&W work...
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Actually, a few colorcasts did have "optical" artifacts, though by and large they weren't nearly as commonplace (as you noted) as when B&W was king:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWarSBAE3FM (at points 0:09 and 1:03, sort of emerald greenish, courtesy one of the Norelco PC-70 cameras*)
* One of WABC Channel 7 New York's Ikegami HK-312C cameras, as of 1983, had similar artifacts, only magenta-ish; that was on a 1983
Eyewitness News opening teaser that has since been taken off YouTube.