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Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda
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Info: POSSIBLY FOUND - Star Wars A New Hope Technicolor I.B. dye transfer print - random post on reddit
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22-Jun-2013, 11:16 PM

pufnstuf said:

What kind of image quality can you expect from EIAJ recordings?  Better or worse than VHS, U-MATIC, etc?

The best EIAJ footage I've ever seen are the 1972 captures I did for Drum Corps World a few years ago.  Some low-res samples are on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKkONJpzU5w

Although color exists, the vast majority are black and white.  Most are worse than VHS, although some are well-preserved.  Playback is very sensitive to the quality and performance of the playback deck.  It generally requires a lot of maintenance, and a bevy of time base correctors and proc amps to get the most out of a tape.  They also have their own set of artifacts to fight.  I've gotten a lot of help from the olvtrs Yahoo forum.

Nowhere near UMatic.  Sound is mono.