Maybe it was kaosjm you were think about Servo?
Beber said:
The 35mm print I saw absolutely did NOT look like that, PDB.
What is wrong about it Beber? Too blue, too purple? All wrong?
Part 1
Here is a little analysis of what I did. I took this frame from the video recording (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnEACdAr1rk):
Notice the blue bias, the purple highlights. I took that pic re-balanced it a bit and applied the colors to the BD to get this:
BD/Regrade
Which is a fairly close match. Got the blues, purple highlights. Jacket loses the green and tends towards black. From that regrade I built a LUT and applied it to the whole film, just to see what it would look like. Going off the video many scenes matched up or were closer:
Video
BD/Regrade
Notice in the video the roof section is redder, the minigun is black, the color of the brick, same as in the regrade using the one LUT from the one frame regrade.
Another desert shot:
Video
BD/Regrade
Again the regrade is closer. It doesn't have the orange shift. Let's shift to the night scenes. This is the most important part for me and why I looked at T2. I contend that the night/dark scenes in T2 has a large blue bias. Witness from the video, the aftermath of the copter chase:
Video
BD/Regrade
Hmmm. The BD has Arnold nature skin tones mix in there a bit which is wrong but has the right aqua blue highlights. The regrade blue is darker (too dark?) which is correct given the video but the highlights are all wrong.
Lets try another
Video/BD/Regrade
Regrade is closest. And more
Video/BD/Regrade
You get the point. Its never perfect but overall the regrade is much closer. I'd also like to point out that this scene is a bit yellower like it was discussed in the the beginning of the thread
BD/Regrade
Continued in Part 2