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Post #1203847

Author
poita
Parent topic
Empire Strikes back 35mm restoration feedback thread (POUT) (a WIP)
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Date created
7-May-2018, 5:21 PM

It all looks a little soft due to the compression, but yes all of the original crawls are softer than the 1997 and onwards digitally created crawls.

The colour has not been done yet, just a basic black and white points adjustment to get it in the ballpark, and the flicker has not been adjusted yet either, it’s just as flickery as it was in the cinema in 1980.
Basically nothing has been done to that sequence I uploaded other than roughly adjusting the exposure. It will look quite different once restored, but I hope the sample gives you a good idea of how the print looks. I did have the print ultrasonically cleaned, so as prints go, it is very clean, but there is always still some dust and dirt and hairs that are wedges into the emulaion. Some are clearly in the negative, so I’m in too minds about cleaning that dirt digitally.