I’m in the process of giving ESB a fresh regrade, starting over using the LUTs provided by DrDre. I think it’ll be less ‘better because it’s different,’ and more ‘better because it’s actually better.’ Part of what I’m doing is to apply less correction in many scenes, as well as using different blends of LUTs.

The impetus and focus for this is the lightsabers during the duel in and around the carbon freezing chamber. I was and still am content with their color in this project, but I feel something has got to be done about the low contrast cores. With the new 19SE transfer to compare to, the 2011 BluRay just won’t do.
While no usable source for the 19SE is available, I wonder whether its appearance would be too different to blend in with the BluRay’s other carbon freezing chamber scenes. Comparing the two, they feel rather distinct from each other.
Another option would be to just borrow from Adywan’s Revisited for those sequences as I did for the Wampa. However, I would prefer to retain the original sabers without them being totally recreated. He also added yellow light whenever the sabers collide which I’d prefer not to include. However, using Revisited only for key shots in which no sabers collide may work well enough. (I believe I’ve gotten the carbon freezing scene graded to a close match to Revisited for this reason.)
A third option would be to cull from work from other members which I may not be aware of. Ideally merely restoring the white cores of the sabers, perhaps through adjusting settings within a mask without completely redoing the saber effects.

(I’m of course hoping that my eventual primary source for ROTJ, be it Adywan’s or something else, will already have reckoned with the BluRay’s botch-job with the sabers during the third act, whether through hard work or using the 19SE.)