In this example, we have some outdoor footage that is severely overexposed and tinted blue. We decreased the highlights and blue levels while adding some mid-range. We go from washed out to blue skies and color that appears lost returns. We’re not always able to make this much o
Whenever we transfer film for a client we always use the DaVinci color correction system to balance color levels. Sometimes we get a film that’s severely faded and needs intense correction to look normal. A client sent us some skydiving footage where the film had gone almost com
We recently transferred some films for the Luehrmann family. The film, titled “Timeshared Computer Graphics”, details Arthur Luehrmann’s early work with computer-generated imagery, commonly referred to as C.G.I. these days. The film was badly faded and red, which is
The Camera was an unmodified Arri SR1. The Telecine employed was a Cintel Turbo3 with a Teranex. We adjusted the scanner framing to crop a little of the image from the top and bottom of the 16mm frame in order to fill a 16:9 aspect ration. Cinematography was framed in anticipation of