poita said:

team_negative1 said:

Correct. The Hoth scenes are not blue. More from Reel 2:

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Team Negative1

Actually that is incorrect. I have viewed two non-faded 35mm prints of ESB in the past month, and Hoth is blue, and white and grey. The grade on the original 35mm release was all over the place. Some scenes are quite blue.

It would be impossible to know the correct colours from pink-faded prints, you can do a reasonable job restoring them so that they look 'good', but the original colour balance is unknowable without a non-faded print as reference. So it will look great, but may not be original timing.

These images look really good, great work on restoring colour from the lost channles, but the colour will be somewhat arbitrary and not what it would have been at release.

Not to take anything away from what is great work, just letting any anal archivists know that the colours chosen for this release may not be all that close to the original timing.

hey poita, I'm guessing the owner of that non-faded 35mm film print will not, under any circumstance, loan the print for scanning, right? If so, that's too bad, although to be honest I like the naturalistic colour palette from Team Negative1's restored prints to the very blue version you're talking about. I assume that a subtle blue cast was added later to the prints for the Hoth scenes.