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Post #1242812

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ChainsawAsh
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Info: Star Wars - What is wrong and what is right... Goodbye Magenta
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24-Sep-2018, 2:51 PM

And oh hey, look, over a month ago in this very thread, a film restoration professional was telling you exactly what I’m saying now:

poita said:

Very interesting.
My only suggestion is to calibrate your screen with some test patterns or with a calibration meter, as everything you post is really quite dark overall.

The images do look CRT-like, but the gamma is way off (too dark).

poita said:

BTW, if anyone is interested in Test Patterns, and has netflix, if you fire up netflix and hit “search” and type in “Test Patterns”, they have a really great test pattern channel.

And the same professional, just yesterday:

poita said:

I still feel like your monitor calibration is slightly off

Any and all color work is useless without proper calibration. Full stop.