Zip Doodah said:
From the end of reel 4 ... From the beginning of reel 5- Technicolor variance is displayed pretty well between these two scenes!
Wow! Thanks for posting those snapshots.
Previously, I thought film fade was pretty uniform over time and the medium. Now that I've discovered it's all over the place, it blows up my thought of a fade fingerprint(tm) based restoration. Oh well ... back to the drawing board. :)
ww12345 said:
I figured I'd share this with others, too ... Totally SD, but still worth it to play with... Paging Spaced Ranger... :)
Did I mention I hate green shirts? Al least, I hate fox's green shirt (see Zip Doodah's fox & rabbit picture). I can also see complications trying to match similar shots across reels (again, Zip Doodah's pictures).
I'll do what I can with the present method, test it's viability on samplings from this file, and post some numbers to test. Don't be afraid to play around with them in your way-better software (if you can directly input low/gamma/high/midtones numbers). If you can work better reconstructing my resultant R-G-B graphs, I can post those, too.
In the meantime, try using my previous numbers just to see what they do. I'll probably make those my starting point anyway.
Thinking out loud:
My present approach using a paint program's standard spectrum manipulation has some not-easily-resolved deficiencies. But I know, to paraphrase Yoda, that "you can un-fade what has been faded"! (It's okay to mix similes here, this being the Original Trilogy forum.) I have some ideas to develop that should also yield post-able numbers but I'm not sure if the standard manipulations will work to easily produce them.