[HN Gopher] Film Restoration Today: The Elusive Perfect Viewing ... ___________________________________________________________________ Film Restoration Today: The Elusive Perfect Viewing Experience Author : Arnt Score : 21 points Date : 2021-04-30 09:14 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (mubi.com) (TXT) w3m dump (mubi.com) | rodgerd wrote: | A nice wrap-up of the kinds of considerations that people are | working with. Thanks for submitting it. | crazygringo wrote: | I'm curious why this article uses the term "color timing" instead | of the industry-standard "color grading". | | I had to look it up, and it appears "color timing" was the analog | practice of adjusting the time film took to develop, in order to | over- or under-develop it, which seems to be primarily about | exposure (brightness/darkness). | | Whereas color grading is essentially about 1) ensuring an | accurate white balance and then 2) adjusting further for whatever | artistic warm, cool, undersaturated, etc. look is desired. | | But this article seems to use the term "color timing" as a | synonym for "color grading". Is this standard practice somewhere? | toast0 wrote: | I've seen color timing in credits, but I don't think I've seen | color grading. | dylan604 wrote: | The term in credits is colorist referring to the one that | does the color grading. | dylan604 wrote: | Color timing is an older term from the film days based on | amount of light used to expose film prints. Color grading has | become the more modern term since it's not actually dependant | on time exposing film. | | "The earlier photochemical film process, referred to as color | timing, was performed at a film lab during printing by varying | the intensity and color of light used to expose the | rephotographed image. Since, with this process alone, the user | was unable to immediately view the outcome of their changes, | the use of a Hazeltine color analyzer was common for viewing | these modifications in real time." | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_grading ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-05-01 23:00 UTC)