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poita
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StarWarsLegacy.com - The Official Thread
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19-Feb-2016, 5:29 AM

joefavs said:

I can’t claim to have seen any actual prints myself (except the 97 SE, but A. That’s irrelevant beyond the fact that it was supposedly based on the technicolor, and B. I was seven years old and not exactly paying attention to this kind of thing yet) but everything I’ve seen here that tries to approximate the technicolor looks too green to me. Particularly the Death Star interior stuff. If the Silver Screen version is accurate to the Eastman, then that looks closer to the platonic ideal of Star Wars I have in my head. Still a little dull on Tatooine, though. A happy medium would be spectacular.

The Silver Screen version is not at all accurate to the Eastman, the colour is all over the place in many scenes, the light leak and lack of low light detail has shifted the colours in the shadow/darker areas are a bit of a mess. The Eastman prints are all faded heavily now, so it is not possible to know any more precisely what they looked like, but you can still work out the colour shif and tone, and the SS doesn’t stick to it with any consistency.

The IB Techs are all off towards green, but it is easily adjusted globally to counteract that push, and that will land you with the closest thing to ‘reference’ colour that you will get.