this thread grew out of Dr Dre’s 4k color grading thread in which I proposed the idea of the storybook photos being used for color reference , some dismissed the idea out of hand as not relevant due to the storybook photos being on set production photos and not stills from the film itself.

I stated that I believe some of them are just that , but not all .The most obvious example being the shot of Vader without his cape on during the scene where he senses Kenobi’s presence . Some have used the 70s photo novels that were blown up from film negatives as examples of the plausability of my view that some of the photos are film stills and others have said they have studied it for years and denied the possibility.

This is the place to state your case by showing examples , which are open to debate , for or against the topic of whether or not they are all stills , all production photos ,or somewhere in between and why, or why not, using the storybook photos as a guide for things like hue , color temp , value etc has relevancy .lastly , the joke about calibrating the storybook was hilarious ! ok , let the debate begin …