@sunday256: Condescending much?

Anyway, this is not about me not being able to take constructive criticism, this is about starting pointless lengthy discussions about things that have already been discussed to death and I'm simply tired of that conversation and answering the same questions for the umphteenth time.

I'm glad someone posted this picture, I forgot it was there. It is much closer to my references, though still a bit darker - this can be caused by various things ranging from the brightness of the projection bulb to the settings of the camera it was taken with). And sorry, Sunday256, but what you remember seeing in the cinema 35 years ago is quite irrelevant to the objective facts. Some people swear to remember having seen Luke throw the grappling hook twice in '77... What definitelly is relevant however, is a professional scan of frames from a perfectly preserved print that was actually made in '77 - actually it is the most relevant evidence to date - and that's what I used as a reference to time that scene.

Also, when you post screenshots from your monitor, if my or anyone else's monitor is calibrated differently from yours, the screenshots will of course display differently than they do on your monitor.