Comment by perlgeek
5 years ago
Your eyes cannot see orange directly, but as an overlap of different intensities of the stimulation of different receptors in the base colors.
So as long as the filters in the camera have roughly the same transmission curve as the sensitivity curve of the color receptors, all is good.
However, to animals (or hypothetical aliens) with other color receptors, the images produced by photo prints and screens would look quite weird, with colors all wrong.
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