poita said:

Lasz said:

The Shade said:

Lasz said:

It's probably not even really ghosting, but just stuff in the shadow that's behind r2d2 that somewhat looks like ghosting, but isn't.

Here's a clearer picture:

http://www.jedi1.net/images/1600/ANH-Creatures-03176-1600.jpg

I can still see it in this pic as well. The "ghosting" follows R2's shoulder joints on both sides.

I see what you mean but to me it looks more like some stuff that's behind R2, in the shadow of the sandcrawler. But it's very faint and hard to distinguish.

No, it is happening in a lot of scenes from the preview that have bright against dark, I just picked that one as an example, it isn't background stuff.

Not a complaint or anything, just interested as to what is causing it, or if it is in the print due to a lens issue or similar.

Could you show another example? As I don't have access to the preview. Does it show on your scans as well?

Ghosting is of course something that could very well happen in those days as the design and coatings of the lenses from that era probably weren't as sophisticated as they are nowadays. Ghosting can indeed happen in lenses while photographing bright objects, but from my knowledge, when it does, the "ghost" usually appears mirrored horizontally and vertically from the center of the frame, not laterally from the object in the frame. The only thing I can think of that would be able to cause that kind of ghosting would be if maybe there was a piece of glass in front of the print.