poita said:
Your monitor is off because the cave is green, Luke is an Oompa Loompa, and Yoda is CRAZY green.
But the question is Poita… how do you REALLY feel about it? 😃
My monitor’s not too far off the snow is green there for me too. But it’s blue a few frames before! I purposefully cranked the saturation to see if that snow would change much, and it really didn’t. I have a conspiracy theory that there were two color timings made in film for ESB… which explains why the home release and the grindhouse are so different than your scans and the 16mm release (which was CRAZY blueberry blue!) but I got no real proof. But the other reason I cranked it so hot was I wanted to see just how much color was in that print. Quite a bit.
The colors are NOT consistent from shot to shot, but I don’t currently have the skills like you and Neverargreat to do a shot by shot adjustment, but I still feel like I can get a big enough improvement make it “worth it” overall. Honestly, with time it’s obvious some better releases are going to hit in the future, I am really looking forward to your new scans! Just playing while we wait for the best that’s yet to come.