DrDre said:

That may certainly be true. On the other hand these photos have been the basis for a large number of color correction projects on this forum. However, it would of course be better to compare directly to scans of the print.

zee944 said: said:

You mean people used those photos taken in the theater as reference?What a horrible idea. I don't know what they were thinking.

DrDre said:

... Michael Kaminski, who atttended the screening, ... said these photos are the best reference for how the film is supposed to look ... but they are said to to be in the ballpark.

I would say not even in the ball park for this reason (and the post after it) ...

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Matrix-35mm/post/672964/#TopicPost672964