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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
ii didnt run it through a vectorscope, but the signal for this one was definitely darker than any other thing available on my screen. had to tweak luma and gamma hard to get a clear image.
sometimes people do that for aesthetic purpose. e.g. marcia macy marlene whatever the name of that was, used a desaturated/ underexposed film stock on purpose, but to me made it unwatchable. and i watched it at the movies actually but just looked bad.
with this one i wondered a lot if it was intended as an ancient would have seen inside a barn in the shadows... but see, the eye adapts to darkness more so than the camera. so maybe it was meant to convey their desperate state in visual form.
whatever the case, i had to tweak it way out of thx settings into overbright sports territory so that i could distinguish shapes
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I just put on my DVD copy and scanned to some of the darker scenes and it seemed fine. I wonder if it was just a bad transfer you saw.