mverta said:
What is seen in the Technidisc SWE LD print definitely is an anomaly like you said, (it appears just like that on the source, so it's not a result of my poor capture or post processing doing something funny either). It happens on several instances throughout the transfer, where the luminance levels suddenly change, to me it almost looks like something tries to auto-compensate or something, the telecine operator can't have been screwing around with it so frequently.
It starts out ok but during the last half of the shot the contrast taper off significantly.
Another example of the same thing happens in the TIE-explosion right before the shot of Vader's line "Several fighters have broken off from the main group. Come with me." In this instance the low contrast stays throughout the following scene:
