Restoring Star Wars

Nov 10, '09  ·  2 Comments Tags: , .

The ever exhaustive Michael Kaminski has written an in-depth and highly informative article on the efforts taken to restore the original negative of Star Wars.

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  • Jonas
    Nov 10, '09 at 21:02

    Great read. And yet soo depressing.

    I really haven’t thought about the effort to make the OT look like the prequels on the dvd:s, but it makes sense (and looks horrible).

    And the fact that AOTC and ROTS is forever-and-ever just 1080 lines of resolution really starts to feel inadequate when a cheap pocket camera has the same resolution now (if not the rest of the quality).

  • Callum
    Nov 17, '09 at 19:22

    fascinating indeed. how shortsighted of a professional filmmaker (especially one with such an obvious technological know-how) to film in 1080p HD on practically first-generation hardware for those prequels.

    … another undoable element of the prequels — filmed on 1080p HD, they have, at the most, less than half the resolution of the 35mm original trilogy, with some arguing that 35mm resolves 5000 lines, meaning they have just under 1/5 the resolution…

    ouch. and i get pissy when i think how many photos I took before discovering RAW… I can just imagine how Lucas must feel!

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