msycamore said:

TServo2049 said:

And that laser...awful. That shot is recomposited, notice how the difference in grain between the 70mm and the Blu-ray is much more visible than in the other comparison.

Are you sure about that? the difference in grain, could it not just be the result of Lowry?

You may well be right. The heavy smoke may have caused more visible grain with each generation than other scenes, so the negative might not look as grainy as this print.

I shouldn't have said that the shot IS recomposited, because I really can't prove it. I guess I just got that impression from looking at the comparison. The lasers look so different that I just assumed that they were recomposited, like the lightsaber scenes.

When I come up with a theory, I sometimes get carried away and start talking about it like it's definitely true. I apologize for that. The truth is that I have no clue as to whether the lasers were recomposited or not.

I just tried boosting the red on the 70mm image, and the feathered glow around the core does become fat and dense like in the Blu-ray. Maybe the dark "stencil" around the laser core is yet another artifact of the red clipping. I know that when I boosted the red in the 70mm image of R2 and 3PO, the dots on the wall light started to get darker like in the Blu-ray image, so maybe the same thing is happening with the laser.

I'd like to see what these scenes look like after snicker's red clipping fix.