Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

If you want to adjust the color, brightness, etc. please be careful not to wash out the brighter or darker areas. It might be fine just to leave it as is and not adjust this at all, but you are obviously the best judge about that.

Definitely, I'm going to try and be extra careful throughout on this. My goal is to make sure that everything that made it from the print to the raw cap, is retained in the final version. Some color correction will be necessary, as it is pretty much impossible to find a single white balance on the camera that works on an entire reel.

I think white balance is very important. Parts of the Puggo Grande seem very 'blown out' (almost like too much light was being projected through the film?) as far as the whites are concerned, though I seem to remember you saying that was representative of the 16mm prints themselves. Those Empire caps look very very good indeed, and being as a quarter of the film is set on Hoth I think it's even more important to keep tabs on the white balance. As you said it's impossible to find a 'correct' balance throughout each reel so I guess this will fall into the 'eye balling' it category. I'd be tempted to try out a raw capture without any processing at all and see how that looks, otherwise one is altering the print. It's nice to preserve exactly how one would see this if projected, even though the temptation is there to keep tweaking the settings.

As others here have said, thank you so much for doing these transfers - you really are preserving an important part of the Star Wars universe and it's greatly appreciated indeed :)

- John