My father was stationed in the South Pacific during the Korean War, somewhere near Australia I think. He used to say he wanted to go back and visit Australia, but that dream died with him. Anyway, everywhere he went he took hundreds of 35mm Kodachrome positive slides with his Argus C3 camera. Once in a while he would drag out the projector and we children, my brother and I, would be allowed to view them. I always thought the Kodachrome colors were more intense than "real life" and later found out that is true. When I started my interest in 35mm photography, I initially used Ectachrome which could be developed in the on-base photo shop facility. Ectachrome was "faster" than Kodachrome and the color were not so saturated, but the hues tended toward the blue-green end of the spectrum. That could have been just improper exposure on my part, or failure to use a "daylight" filter when taking pictures indoors, especially with fluorescent illumination.
When digital imaging started to become affordable for personal use, I decided that one day I would digitally scan all my old 35mm slides to get RGB separated images. Then I would be able to manipulate the colors in Photoshop until every thing looked "right". When I got married in 2000 (for the second time), I requested that the wedding photographer (who happened to be an acquaintance from work) record the wedding on medium-format color film and provide me with the negatives. It is my intention to scan these "real soon now" so I can edit and print our wedding pictures.
I won't go into this in any detail here, but it is impossible to reproduce all the colors the human eye can perceive using only three "primary" colors. All the colors that humans can perceive are mapped on a CIE diagram that has a horseshoe shape. The curved outer boundary maps all the pure spectral colors from red to indigo or violet. A straight line joining the red and the violet ends defines a "purple boundary". White, as represented by incandescent black-body radiation, is near the middle of the chart. Because of the shape of the chart, it is impossible to find three "real color" points that encompass all the colors on the chart. Red, green, and blue spectral colors come close. So compromises are always made in reproducing color, whether on film with saturated dyes, or on a monitor screen with phosphors or color filters for LCD. I believe the most faithful rendering occurs with a digital light projector developed by Texas Instruments, but these are mainly used for large-screen theater projection.
All that said, those are some really nice images Dave put up. I wish he had taken time-lapse video showing the storm approaching. I bet that would have been awesome!
Hop