So I’ve put off doing my final render to do one more pass of a look through for the color. Most of the corrected shots I am very happy with. The only sequence which has been causing me alot of trouble pretty much since color correction began is Mos Eisley. Originally I chose my color corrected version of this sequence over towne32’s. It was a close call but it came down to me liking the sky and skin tones slightly better in my version. I’ve since changed my tune. I feel there is quite a but too much red in towne32’s version (which I tried to get rid of/minimize but couldn’t manage to without introducing distracting color anomalies), but nonetheless I like the overall quality of 2.6 better, with the exception of one shot, which I’ll get to in a sec. And the slightly too red image of 2.6 is far less distracting to me than the too yellow 2.5. In context, your brain adjusts to it and it doesn’t look weird.
Therefore, I have reverted the mos eisley sequence to just the standard 2.6. Only two shots are different:

the shot just after the first shot of the speeder entering mos eisley because it had too much majenta and stood out slightly from the surrounding shots. Slightly color corrected, but still 2.6
the infamous panning shot of the speeder moving from left to right across frame just after the “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for” scene. I’m not sure if towne32 used a different source for this shot? but the detail in 2.6 of this particular shot looks slightly lower than in 2.5, plus 2.6 is zoomed in a fair bit, so I used my color corrected shot from 2.5, slightly adjusted to better fit the surrounding 2.6 shots.

R2 canyon shots have been fixed and look alot better now.

Final render of 81 version has started and should be done tonight. Final render of 77 version should be finished tomorrow.