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A friend of mine recently passed me copies of PG and PSB and I was quite impressed with the amount of time and effort that went into producing the transfers. However, I've also seen other video from 16mm sources that is lightyears sharper than the Puggo transfers (the gorgeous HD footage in the Ken Burns national park series, for instance) This got me thinking: is the softness seen in the preserved 16mm copies of ANH and ESB a function of the prints themselves (possibly stemming from cheap optics in the reduction or duplication process or from suboptimal focusing during the making of the print or the use of bargain-basement film stock) or is it a case of the telecine technology used to being able to capture all the detail in the original?
Also, I've heard that some of the high-end Super 8 prints made for serious collectors in the 80s and 90s can be sharper than most of the 16mm prints of the films in question. Has anyone seen the Derann ANH and RoTJ or the Classic Home Cinema ESB to know if this is the case with Star Wars? Certainly I've seen videos on Youtube showing very clean and detailed Super 8 footage, so theory suggests that it's possible...
