Originally posted by: THX
Thanks for posting those, boris. If you have time, could you get together with Moth3r and make caps that match ***The NEW "official" Screenshots thread ***? Sure thing, give me a couple of days.Originally posted by: Ozkeeper
8 is being pretty generous. I'd say 5 or 6.

The colour is just about perfect, the contrast is consistent... the image does drop in quality... especially the out-door shots, but I have a strong feeling this is due to the negatives... it drops to around a 7/10 quality... but it rises to an 8.5 and 9/10 quality in other scenes. There's very little digital scratches/glitches... there are some (hallelujah!) and it's certainly not an amount to worry about. You've certainly seen more scratches on a james bond movie.

The un-steady "movement" is, I believe, due to the way a film camera works. It can't guarantee every frame gets a perfect field of view, and at the same time all the moving parts cause the camera to physically "shake" a little. The camera-shake is something that exists on the negatives, and is a by-product of shooting on film. Removing that is like removing the film grain, which is like colourizing a black and white movie. It's not distracting, and it is normal. Godfather has worse camera-shaking going on.

There's some aliasing here and there (there isn't much though) - but on the whole it's a very nice transfer. It's a nice and sharp picture, with good colour... the screenshots don't do it justice, you have to actually watch the movie to fully appreciate it. I popped the '04 disc in and watched a couple of scenes… it does have more detail in the image, so it's a bit better… but on the whole it's not that much better. The soundtrack is very good.