[rollei_list] Re: OT: Leica Film Length-Now Kodachrome
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:56:53 -0400
This is inaccurate information. The Technicolor process had a great
deal of control of saturation and hue, to a lesser degree contrast. If
the film-makers had wanted more natural color, they could have had it.
It was the grammar/preference of the time and had little to do with
the process.
Eric Goldstein
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:03 AM, David Sadowski <dsadowski@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote: (snipped)
> I didn't say that the early color films looked like a cheap postcard.
> What I did say is that early three-strip Technicolor and such have
> oversaturated color, and that this was probably the result of
> technicians giving the film a color pallette similar to what people
> were used to seeing on postcards and in magazines.
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