Lil Brutto said:
The fact is the IB TECH is EXTREMELY dirty and has a lot of scratches, lines, etc. Despite all this. the colors are intact and vivid. The skies are blue not green like the skies and Blondie's teeth on the 4K BD (just before the desert scene when Tuco catches up with him at Shorty's execution).
Stay tuned.
Following up on my previous post (above) I finally have some caps to share. The expert working on the print (i.e. clean/repair/scan) has been doing a FANTASTIC job. It's a slow and tedious process but the results are truly spectacular!
The R1 screencaps I posted before are from a "raw" scan without a LUT applied. Hence, the desaturated look. This time around the scanner sent me a sample video after applying a LUT in order to give a better idea of how the print actually looks. It's R9 footage of "Sorry, Tuco", which - by the way - has been conspicuously absent from all Italian home releases.
Please keep in mind these are downsized, lossy jpegs grabbed from a lossy sample video. Despite this, the characteristic color saturation/depth/range of the "glorious" IB TECH shines through.
