zombie84 said:
Spent the night converting the raw photos from the Technicolor screening to correct the perspective. I shrunk them by 50% in size as well, so instead of 10mb they are about 1mb, but they should still fill your screen.
Some choice examples:
http://savestarwars.com/images/senatorcorrected/technicolor2.jpg
http://savestarwars.com/images/senatorcorrected/technicolor6.jpg
http://savestarwars.com/images/senatorcorrected/technicolor32.jpg
See http://savestarwars.com/technicoloribscreening.html for more. I didn't do the complete photo collection though. Maybe one day.
Puggo: Thanks a lot for the advice. This is exactly the sort of stuff I am hoping to sort out by posting the work-in-progress here and getting feedback. Of course, the main page I sort of threw together and always planned on re-working, but probably the text would have been on similar lines to the way it is now. I'll keep your post in mind when I go through and start editing.
Wow, zombie are those actually screen captures of the 35mm print wow Lucas would have kittens if he saw this. LOL
Wow those are smashing quality pictures the grain the scratches and tiny imperfections says one word “film”.
That is how it should look on bluray the detail should be captured with nothing more and nothing less there’s no EE no DNR no colour manipulation, just perfect.
Obi-Wan's eyes roll as he explains to Luke.
What I have noticed in the tiny areas of the optical effect is common issue with nearly or most telecine video transfers that takes a really good video engineer to see that only the image and colour is captured.
This green like cyan can be seen on countless laserdisc to DVD to even yes the so called perfect bluray format as I have witnessed first hand.
The Abyss on THX laserdisc and DVD look at the underwater scenes during the first shots you’ll see Ed Harris looking out a domed window at the divers and all the floodlights have cyan green all around it and its down to (blue and white) that causes the artefacts to be seen.
I can see the same thing with the optical effect around R2-D2 on the video transfer. “It takes a good engineer” to do it right and lot a lot of films on video just look like total crap.
Does anyone own the first edition of The Abyss on Fox widescreen laserdisc as I’m sure the colour balance would be correct on that version? I’ve seen a TV broadcast many years ago, that was the theatrical version as I saw in the cinema some x3 times.
The theatrical version on DVD is the same lousy colour balance and I doubt it was the same version produced for the early laserdisc because the colours and brightness to contrast had gritty realistic look on the TV version all the grain as well as scratches and que dots ever 15 to 20 minutes was all there.
Even the soundtrack Dolby mix broadcasted in digital NICAM725 had richer quality for optical 35mm.
If the digital cameras of today can capture clarity images of the space shuttles underside to see if there are missing tiles then I don’t seen any excuses as to why digital technology can’t capture the STAR WARS films in there entirety without the use of EE DNR or colour tricky that only leads to colour imbalance issues of unnatural colour skin tones.
I’ve only seen a few on DVD and bluray a few that look spot and few is just not good enough in my books since I just paid them for lousy cheap unprofessional work for rotten film like, “The 6th Day” the optical and some pyro on set effects just turn to green crap because of the high intensity of the whites that have been boasted up to make bluray only appear its better than DVD.