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Post #927823

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DrDre
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Estimating the original colors of the original Star Wars trilogy
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Date created
11-Apr-2016, 11:41 PM

Darth Lucas said:

Looks pretty good. All the shots on the tantive look a bit too dark/saturated to my eye, but the colors themselves look good 😃

If I remember correctly the LPP is a dupe of another print. The contrast of a print increases with each generation (something about optical gamma), similar to a 16 mm print, which is also generally a copy of a 35 mm print, so the scan should be gamma corrected for a better viewing experience, but it’s likely the original print was pretty contrasty.