On Jan 17, 2004, at 2:18 AM, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
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One of my jobs at the late, great Hansen Planetarium was to copy prints and slides. What a chore it was to get the colors right. I had a large color chart that I shot a picture of at the start and end of each roll of film. Try as I might, I rarely got it perfect, but after a few years of doing it I could get it close enough that most folks would not notice the difference unless they compared the copy to the original.
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When I was a student at Rice University in the 70s, Gene Roddenberry came by to give a talk about making Star Trek. It was all pretty interesting (I especially enjoyed the blooper reel), but one of the salient points I remember is when he described shooting an episode where the aliens had blue (or green) skin. The parts kept coming back from the lab with flesh tones for the aliens. Finally he spoke to them, and they realized what colors they were supposed to be. They had been correcting for "obvious color flaws." Color photography is tough... Jim ---- Jim Cobb james@cobb.name