It's interesting, I was watching one of the SE trailers last night, and I noticed that the explosion of the death star didn't have that ring around it......it makes me wonder about other unaltered shots and how many of them are really 'destroyed' or whatever LFL is claiming.

Puggo said: I'm curious... although a 70mm copy would be "lossy" compared with a 35mm original, I wonder if a telecine scan of a good enlarged 70mm copy might turn out better anyways. The scanning process itself should be more effective when the source is physically larger. Or am I missing something?

I would think that a 70mm copy would be better than a 35mm copy from the same source because the grain structure would be smaller, but probably a 35mm original would be preferable because there would be one less layer of grain from being duped. (?)

ChainsawAsh said: "Star Wars," however, was shot on 35mm entirely,

But the FX shots were done in VistaVision (35mm film running sideways to create a 70mm format). So technically, the FX shots are in 70mm.