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Post #1305260

Author
DrDre
Parent topic
4K restoration on Star Wars
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Date created
14-Nov-2019, 6:39 AM

Oke, having reviewed the new 4K masters I see a much more detailed image with less artifacts, and so a much better source to work from for future fan restorations. However, the more I look at the colors the less I like them. The reason for this, is that this new 4K master seems to have the opposite problem of the oversaturated 2004 master, namely that the color grading for all six saga films seem to be almost devoid of color appearing almost monochrome in several scenes.

To be honest I’ve never seen 4K restorations with so little color. Just for comparison here’s a frame from the recent 4K restoration of 2001: A Space Odyssey:

Here are several shots from the Blade Runner restoration: