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Post #629880

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Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda
Parent topic
Harmy's THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Despecialized Edition HD - V2.0 - MKV & AVCHD (Released)
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Date created
27-Mar-2013, 1:51 PM

Regarding the correctness of the colors in PSB... there are two relevant issues.  First, there is the issue of whether the print has faded.  I believe that it wasn't faded.  Second, there is the issue of whether the color timing on the capture is correct.  For that I am less certain.  There is no such thing as just grabbing the colors with a camera, you always have to make judgement calls with respect to white balance.  Cameras just don't work like our eyes do - even top photo houses prefer to make prints off of negatives if they also have a positive print to use as reference.  This is also why I think using the colors in a video shot at a showing in a theater as the basis for color timing a restoration is inherently unreliable.

The bottom line, I think that the colors of the elements in PSB are correct relative to each other - that is, for example, if something is a certain blue in two spots, I would be confident that they really are the same color.  (as opposed to PG, where a number of different colors have faded to the same pink).

I know you are concerned about the blues.  I would say that if there is something that is a certain blue and you are confident it is correct, then seeing that same blue somewhere else, it is probably correct too.  But whether or not everything is too blue, that I don't know.  I do know that as I watched it, it did look a little bit more blue than I was expecting.  My capture was certainly overly purple, which Adywan corrected nicely.